Joseph Rowntree Foundation finds problem is ‘deeper and more damaging than at any point in the last 30 years’ ...

The Joseph Rowntree Foundation said 6.8 million people were living in very deep poverty in the year to March 2024.

American households earning well into the middle six figures increasingly say they feel squeezed, not secure, as housing, health care and child care costs outpace their paychecks. The claim that ...

At Prime Minister’s Questions just now, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said “1.7 million fewer people are living in poverty”. This is correct based on one measure of poverty, but others offer a different ...

LONDON, March 26 (Reuters) - Welfare cuts announced by Britain on Wednesday will drive 250,000 into relative poverty by the end of the decade and leave millions of families with less cash, according ...

Low pension adequacy, restrictive safety nets, and life-course inequality explain why old age so often means poverty in Korea ...

We evaluate progress in the War on Poverty as President Lyndon B. Johnson defined it, which established a 20% baseline poverty rate and adopted an absolute standard. While the official poverty rate ...

Jimi Hendrix’s former bandmates died in “relative poverty” while record labels continue to profit from their contributions through streaming, their estates have claimed. The estates of Noel Redding ...

ROME (Reuters) - Poverty in Italy has reached its highest level in at least 16 years as the economic crisis has bitten, driving up unemployment and cutting wages, according to a report on social ...