The Latest Breaking News from Poverty

For decades, white students have performed significantly better than Black and Hispanic students on tests of academic achievement. Explanations for these achievement gaps include poverty and systems that result in discrimination. Others cite struggles to learn English. And some folks believe that some groups simply don’t value education.

The United States on Tuesday banned all civilian flights to Haiti for a month, a day after a jetliner was shot at on approach to the capital and as a new prime minister took the reins of a nation ravaged by poverty and gang violence.

Couple buys mortgage-free, 3-bedroom house and makes two kids share one room. A friend says it's a "sign of poverty," but the woman disagrees. The post Friend Calls Lady Poor As She Has 2 Kids Sharing A Big Room In Mortgage-Free House, Folks Disagree first appeared on Bored Panda.

Thousands of migrants - including some who were encouraged to come to fill skills shortages - are living in poverty as they can’t access benefits

It’s two years since Kenyan president William Ruto, in what seemed like a political gamble, rolled out a government-run microcredit scheme popularised as the Hustler Fund. Worth 50 billion shillings (US$409 million) a year over a five-year period, the low-interest loans were touted as the “magic formula” to start or…

Research for Marie Curie said an estimated 128,000 people died in fuel poverty in 2022, including 110,000 pensioners.

The initiative will seek to address poverty experienced by adults and children in the capital

Driven mostly by poverty, children as young as 10 have been enlisted by the country’s militias, while NGOs try to reach and reintegrate those who escape

Haitian activists are demanding that other countries temporarily stop deportations to their country given a surge in gang violence and deepening poverty

The refundable amount for workers with or without children is slightly higher this year. Here’s what you need to know.

Letter: Benjamin Selwyn says the Democratic party failed to drain the swamp of poverty and inequality that amplifies Trump’s faux populism, while Paul Nickells points the finger at Joe Biden’s late departure