The Latest Breaking News from Poverty

Editorial: With one in 20 people unable to afford food or other basics, charities are right to declare an emergency

Exclusive: Special rapporteur Olivier De Schutter to urge ministers to increase welfare spending on visit to country this week

Mani Shankar Aiyar defies Kerala Congress leadership's request & speaks at Keraleeyam event. He pays tribute to Rajiv Gandhi for 73rd Constitutional Amendment to introduce Panchayati Raj. He lauds Kerala's record in implementing panchayati raj & praises its poverty alleviation. He calls for addressing stagnation in fiscal decentralisation & administrative…

Claims about growing affluence and an astonishing reduction in the Multidimensional Poverty Index are exaggerated as there is growing deprivation of access to food and shelter

The lowest income Californians are more likely to have lingering symptoms, and more likely to lose jobs.

Human rights expert says US companies trap workers in poverty, forcing them to rely on food stamps and Medicaid

BRS govt committed to emancipate Dalits from poverty & promote entrepreneurship. CM KCR slams Congress & BJP for using Dalits as vote banks. Dalit Bandhu scheme launched in Huzurabad on pilot basis, extended to 4 districts. Scheme to be implemented in Sattupalli soon. BRS govt distributed land pattas to 15,107…

People who are living in poverty report feelings of worry and anxiety at higher rates than average.

Kerala govt. has successfully completed the first phase of its poverty eradication programme, with 30,658 families (47.89%) out of 64,006 identified as extremely poor, moving out of extreme poverty. Micro plans were formulated to provide immediate, short-term & long-term needs. Necessities, skill training, cooked meals, housing & medical aid were…

What No One Seems to Know About Coal As advanced nations pursue the glittering dream of transitioning to alternative forms of energy–issuing calls and challenges for the rest of the world to join the parade–the one constant that got us here in the first place has been unfairly slandered and…

A senate inquiry into poverty has heard from a range of First Nations representatives about how Indigenous people are frequently excluded by the system.