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Advert that highlighted impact on child poverty was deemed to have breached political advertising rules

Slovenia’s children are less likely to know deprivation than any other European nation’s. Is that because of what the country is doing now – or its socialist past?

Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch accused Sir Keir Starmer of making ‘U-turn after U-turn’.

FOR a party that only really emerged onto the UK electoral map less than a year ago, it’s fair to say Reform UK have stolen a lot of headlines in…

In 2020, 37.2 million people, or 11.4 percent of the nation’s population, lived below the poverty line, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. With many Americans considered the working poor, it’s important to consider why so many can’t get out of poverty. The reality is that it is extremely difficult…

Campaigners warn child poverty could deepen under the Labour government, unless the two-child cap is lifted

Africa needs its forests for sustainable development, poverty reduction, food security, and to make the continent more resilient to climate change. They take up 23% of the continent. At 674 million hectares in extent, these forests occupy an area the same size as the Amazon rainforest.

In Uganda, where more than 40% of the population live in extreme poverty, many families live in homes with dirt floors

Parents struggling to feed their children say they had not heard of service before reaching out for lifeline support

COMMENT: Editorial: New figures shared with The Independent show the extent to which families are relying on baby banks. The government’s plans to tackle child poverty should start immediately

Exclusive: Celebrities, MPs and campaigners say the situation is a ‘national disgrace’ as they call for more support for families