The Latest Breaking News from Poverty

PM’s speech failed to specify measures to tackle issue, angering MPs calling to scrap the two-child benefit cap

The NHS, child poverty, defence: Labour is selling itself on its ability to get some big things done, says Guardian associate editor Martin Kettle

America’s potential future vice president topped bestseller lists with his 2016 memoir, a tale of multi-generational, cyclical poverty in Appalachia. Nick Hilton looks back on what the politician argued in the book, from his criticisms of welfare to his belief that the working classes ‘spend our way into the poorhouse’

Movie divided critics and viewers with its portrayal of poverty

LABOUR will not remove the two-child benefit cap in the King’s Speech, Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner has said ...

Labour MP Kim Johnson is ready to table an amendment to the King’s Speech to ditch the restriction

Baltimore’s mayor and city council are trying to stop a proposed ballot measure that would give all new parents a $1,000 “baby bonus” meant to help reduce childhood poverty from birth

With the end of direct cash payments, poverty levels are moving up.

Campaigners urge the new government to scrap the controversial policy