The Latest Breaking News from Poverty

A recent poll by the Social Research Foundation, a think thank, found that 60% of South Africans thought the government of national unity was working well. It also reported that support for the unity government’s anchor political parties, the African National Congress (ANC) and the Democratic Alliance (DA), had risen…

JOHN Swinney has said growing investment in Scotland would help to tackle child poverty as he attended a summit in London.

Hunter help-seekers continue to rise during Anti-Poverty Week.

Letter: Coinciding with Challenge Poverty Week, a call for the government to listen to people with lived experience of poverty when drawing up plans to tackle the crisis

The spike in the cost of groceries can cause low-income, food-insecure folks to get into a debt cycle

Mexico’s first female president, leftwing academic and climate scientist Claudia Sheinbaum, has set out her agenda. She pledged to maintain the social policies of her mentor and predecessor, the widely popular former president Andrés Manuel López Obrador (commonly known by his initials, AMLO).

It’s cruel to tell someone to budget their money when what they really need is a livable wage and a viable social safety net

THE UK Government’s “scandalous decision” to cut the eligibility of the Winter Fuel Payment will leave 85 of Scottish pensioners in poverty…

THE number of people in Scotland facing hunger and hardship has reached record levels, according to a report ...

Food bank network Trussell has developed term to define deep poverty – but what does this mean, who is affected by it, and why?

One million more people are in what Trussell charity defines as ‘hunger and hardship’ than five years ago