The Latest Breaking News from Poverty

Labor MP Alicia Payne and Liberal MP Bridget Archer will co-chair a parliamentary friendship group focused on ending poverty.

Poverty, by America author Matthew Desmond says if the top 1% of Americans paid the taxes they owed, it would raise $175 billion each year: "That is just about enough to pull everyone out of poverty."

Liberal and Labor MPs Bridget Archer and Alicia Payne unite in call for welfare boost

The supermarket has added hygiene products to its Good to Give range after research showed food bank users increasing also need donated toiletries

Here are some inconvenient facts that upset the dominant narrative about the color line and poverty in America

Misguided policies are hurting the poorest in society; our focus should be on reducing inequality not increasing GDP

For the Pulitzer prize-winning author of Evicted, a heartbreaking study of the American housing crisis, bearing witness was not enough

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Ukrainian officials say an unprecedented wartime deal that allows grain to flow from Ukraine to countries in Africa, the Middle East and Asia where hunger is a growing threat and high food prices are pushing more people into poverty has been extended

The North East Child Poverty Commission believes free childcare should be available to all babies and children