The Latest Breaking News from Poverty

Report shows government plan for targeted help would fail to reach homes not registered for benefits

Budgets are about choices and priorities, and ours are skewed. Women have had enough of being treated like a minority.

Leaving welfare payments at current rate ‘unconscionable and grossly irresponsible’, says anti-poverty body

Jamal Barack was 18 when he was shot in the arm and chest during an ambush on the Army’s Scots Guards in Helmand Province. He has been waiting for compensation for 13 years

Labor may be correct that it can’t solve poverty in one budget, but it has no excuse not to begin the process

Medical sources in Sanaa reported that more than 200 people were killed and wounded in what has come to be called the “massacre of the hungry”. The stampede tragedy occurred when hundreds of people in the poverty-hit country had gathered at a school in the capital Sanaa to receive cash…

The life-saving drug “Narcan” is expected to be available over-the-counter later this year, but its price tag is expected to put it out of reach for many below the poverty line.

Both the Mayor and the Government have been urged by the London Assembly to take further action to address food poverty in the capital

Tower Hamlets has the highest level of child poverty in the UK with over 50% children living in households below the poverty line

The government has said that people on disability benefits aren't in enough 'fuel poverty' with their energy bills

According to new research, people with epilepsy who live in disadvantaged neighbourhoods with higher poverty rates and fewer educational and employment opportunities may be more likely to have memory, thinking, and mental health problems than people with epilepsy who live in less disadvantaged neighbourhoods. Read further on Dynamite News;