The Latest Breaking News from Poverty

The Labour leader launched his general election campaign today with a 48-hour blitz of Conservative-held battleground seats

Former prime minister Gordon Brown has called for a rescue plan for some of the UK’s most vulnerable young people. There are, he said, 3.4 million children born after 2010 who are in poverty and whose development has been affected by the austerity policies of Conservative-led governments.

There will be no change to unemployment payments despite a government committee and several social services groups calling for an increase

Despite reductions to housing and antipoverty programs, Gov. Gavin Newsom maintains Medi-Cal funding.

A surplus matters less than what choices the government makes in its budget – here’s what Jim Chalmers’ statement tells us

If even the Tory right-winger sees political capital in opposing the two-child benefit cap, Keir Starmer needs to think again, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

We know about the hardship of ‘Thatcher’s children’, but a new generation of Tories has raised inequality to even higher levels, says the former UK prime minister Gordon Brown

Former prime minister proposes £3bn support package for ‘blighted generation’, including Sure Start relaunch

NSSO fact sheet data reveals declining poverty and inequality trends, with varying estimates based on different methodologies.

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