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Headteachers condemn ‘Dickensian’ levels of rising poverty at annual conference.

Since 2016, the Nigerian economy, Africa’s largest, has suffered two recessions; prices of necessities have soared.

Upper Braes voters will have to choose three councillors from nine candidates on May 5, and many residents will be expecting soaring bills and fuel poverty to be at the top of the agenda for those elected.

There are subsidies that are productive and then there are those that are wasteful

Exclusive: Data from Labour’s shadow women and equalities secretary reveals women left ‘brutally exposed’ to cost of living crisis 

The Ngorongoro Conservation Area in northern Tanzania is a spectacular area made up of expansive plains, forests and savanna. It’s also home to a huge caldera – a depression that forms when a volcano erupts and collapses – known as the Ngorongoro Crater.

Some users even hit back at how The Range is allegedly promotes food in bulk when others are living in poverty

Caroline Rice, who lives and works in County Fermanagh in rural Northern Ireland, is one of tens of thousands of workers in the UK who are being pushed into the poverty bracket because of spiralling living costs

A hidden history lies beneath the world where racism flattens lives by creating poverty and violence. Within this history, overlooked stories show that marginalized communities can achieve meaningful change as they seek to overcome years of neglect and discrimination. That’s what happened on the eve of the L.A. uprising 30…

Brazil's lower house approved on Wednesday a measure that makes permanent the 400 reais ($80.58) Auxilio Brasil monthly welfare program for families in poverty situations, months ahead of the country's October presidential election. 

ATLANTA — The Southern Poverty Law Center Wednesday joined a growing chorus of activist groups calling on the Stone Mountain Memorial Association to cancel a planned Confederal Memorial Day rally scheduled for the park Saturday, citing a legacy of racial hatred and violence connected to such rallies.