Sixty-nine million children — or more than one in five — live in poverty in the world’s 40 richest countries UNICEF said in a report released Wednesday, blasting Britain and France for their ...

Extreme poverty in Poland fell to 5.2 percent in 2024 from 6.6 percent a year earlier, according to a new Poverty Watch report by EAPN Poland, the Polish branch of the European Anti-Poverty Network.

Child poverty rates in the US are at historically low levels, and similar to other countries such as the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Canada. This truth gets lost when politicians like Sen. Bernie ...

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The squeeze on winter fuel payments will force 100,000 pensioners into poverty in 2026, according to the Government’s own ...

Princeton sociologist Matthew Desmond’s previous book, Evicted, offered a compelling account of poverty in America. Illuminating and thought-provoking, its ethnographic accounts of deep struggle ...

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In September 2015, Heads of State will convene at the General Assembly of the United Nations to agree upon a set of sustainable development goals (SDGs). The first target of the first SDG proposed by ...

Scrapping the winter fuel allowance will leave an extra 100,000 pensioners in poverty, ministers admitted today. Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall revealed the estimate for the impact of the ...