The Latest Breaking News from Poverty

Born into extreme poverty, Grant was told as a child his mother had died. She had actually been placed in a psychiatric institution. It was the start of a life of repression and extraordinary reinvention

The concerns were raised as councillors called for a universal approach to be taken to providing food during the school holidays

Thousands of Amazon Indigenous are leaving their rainforest villages in a migration to urban areas that is reshaping their lives, their villages and their new cities

The Global Goals are a phenomenal idea. They're what happened when the UN came together and said: "Here are the world's biggest problems, and here is how we're going to measure progress on them." The 17 goals include promises to end extreme poverty and hunger, fix climate change and education,…

Situation in Borny mirrors that in many of the neighbourhoods that have clashed with police amid riots

As more and more families are pushed to the brink, children and parents in Liverpool are taking the fight against poverty to the top

Local councillor Steve Tuckwell opposed measures to help reduce poverty despite the cost of living crisis causing food bank usage rise in his community

Cost of living crisis and rising interest rates forcing more people to become ‘trapped in poverty’

Alun Francis who grew up in poverty criticised successive governments for failing for decades to grasp the vital role geography plays in social mobility