The Latest Breaking News from Poverty

One in four UK children, including 1.3 million primary school children and one million under four, are growing up below the poverty line, a new report has found

Marie Curie research shows most dying people of working age have paid 24 years of National Insurance contributions.

Extreme weather compounds a humanitarian crisis in poverty-stricken Afghanistan, leaving scores of people and vital livestock dead.

Despite an apocalyptic media narrative, the modern era has brought much longer lives and the greatest decline in poverty ever.

Upwards of 2.8 billion people do not have access to safe sanitation. A third of the world’s population doesn’t have a toilet.

Teacher Dora Moono Nyambe, 30, adopted 13 children and fostered three others after deciding to move to the village of Mapapa in Zambia to help alleviate poverty and open a free school with money she raised through TikTok

The North Tyneside Conservatives claim universal school meals do not address the root causes of child poverty, while Labour claims too many people fall through the cracks to access free school meals.

Growing numbers of people in Asia lack enough to eat as food insecurity rises with higher prices and worsening poverty, according to a report released Tuesday by the Food and Agricultural Organization and other United Nations agencies. Nearly a half-billion people, more than eight in 10 of them in South…

A report by the United Nations shows growing numbers of people in Asia lack enough to eat as food insecurity rises with higher prices and worsening poverty

An all-party report shows the problem, including fuel poverty and food insecurity, is higher in the north than the rest of England.

Māori issues editor Aaron Smale says sexism, racism, fairness and missed opportunities need to be considered when analysing Ardern’s complex legacy.