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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...