The Latest Breaking News from Poverty

The outspoken chef has said he is 'up for a fight' over tackling child poverty

The Independent and the Food Foundation is calling for free school meals for all children in poverty

The Northumberland councillor's views during an interview at the Conservative Party Conference have been branded 'disgusting'

Cascading global crises have left 54 countries -- home to more than half of the world's poorest people -- in dire need of debt relief, the UN said Tuesday. In a new report, the United Nations Development Program warned that dozens of developing nations were facing a rapidly deepening debt…

Economy in focus: In Mississippi, poverty is high and water problems blight the state. But Republicans seem adamantly against spending to help their constituents

Feed the Future: The Independent partners with the Food Foundation to call on the government to give meals to all schoolchildren living in poverty but who are not currently eligible

Free school meals should be a human right, not a benefit

Special investigation: Move would benefit Britain by £2.5billion over 20 years

A baby born between 2019 and 2021 can expect to live 76 years if male and 80 years for women. That’s a reduction of 11 weeks on the previous figures.

For many providing care “work is not a reliable route out of poverty”, the Health Foundation warned.

Shannon Burns’ memoir Childhood begins with an epigraph from Leo Tolstoy’s book of the same name: