The Latest Breaking News from Poverty

Help with bills via a social tariff would hark back to the success of the Covid universal credit uplift, writes Polly Toynbee

Across the UK, an estimated £19 billion worth of benefits goes unclaimed each year

‘The early years practitioners who are working tirelessly for poverty wages deserve better,’ campaigner says

Rishi Sunak said the Government was right to close schools when the concrete safety issue came to light.

Homeless shelters in Argentina's capital are seeing demand soar as more people are struggling to make ends meet amid an annual inflation rate above 100% that is pushing more people into poverty

The National Party’s pledge to apply sanctions to unemployed people receiving a welfare payment, if they are “persistently” failing to meet the criteria for receiving the benefit, has attracted plenty of comment and criticism.

Efforts to eradicate extreme poverty progressing at a fast pace, says Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan

People think sexual harassment and domestic abuse are less harmful for women in poverty than for higher-income women, according to four studies involving 3,052 Americans conducted by my colleagues and me. We also found that people believe women in poverty require less help and support when experiencing these kinds of…

Coalition of experts publish action points including tackling inequality, poor housing and child poverty