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Spreading protests across Iran over a cut in state subsidies on food have turned political with slogans calling for top leaders to step down, according to posts on social media, and unconfirmed reports said at least four protesters were killed. Protests began in some cities last week sparked by the…

Enumeration to identify extremely poor throws up insight into nature of poverty

Tory MP Lee Anderson claimed to the Sunday Mirror that not all people who use food banks are “poor.”

Debt charity Christians Against Poverty tackles debt and loneliness in the town as part of Mental Health Awareness Week

The scheme is to help fight period poverty

A woman visited four different Morrisons stores to try out the ‘package for Sandy’ code, a period poverty initiative that was launched by the supermarket chain last year

Brett Favre’s involvement in a $77 million welfare scam is just another example of how Mississippi continues to fail its most vulnerable people — and everyone involved should be held accountable.

Lebanese vote on Sunday in the first election since their country's economic collapse, a test of whether Iran-backed Hezbollah and its allies can preserve their parliamentary majority amidst soaring poverty and anger at ruling parties.

Lee Anderson’s suggestion that food poverty is down to not being able to cook and budget properly is ‘out of touch’, says council leader