In Britain, the headline relative in-work poverty rate steadily rose from 13.4% in 1994–95 to 18.4% in 2019–20. We study the ...

NEWCASTLE, England — At a food bank in a rundown part of northeast England, an unemployed mother and her adult son were having an odd morning. Denise and Michael Hunter typically come here for a quiet ...

Nearly a quarter of Labour MPs say increasing taxes could enable to the government to lift the two-child benefit cap.

Backed by leading anti-poverty and children’s charities, Big Issue wants to see the government setting clear targets to ...

Thousands of people have marched through central Edinburgh calling for more action to tackle poverty in Scotland. The ...

While Parliament Debates, Children Go to Bed Hungry. In 2025, the UK faces a moral emergency: 4.5 million children are living in relative poverty after housing costs, a figure projected to rise to 4.8 ...

A report into poverty in Britain, one of the world’s richest countries, has concluded that millions of low-income families are “surviving not living”, while a growing proportion of the population is ...

The deaths come as the number of people living in temporary accommodation across the UK is at record levels, while the number of people rough sleeping in England rose 20% in 2024 to 4,667, according ...

After more than a year in power, Labour has failed to reverse the cuts to social security that have worsened health ...

More than a fifth of adults in the South East experience daily struggles with their finances, a charity has found. Christians ...

London (CNN) — The most disadvantaged people in the United Kingdom are no better-off than they were 15 years ago, according to a new report, which finds a “yawning gap between those who can get by and ...

United Nation Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights Olivier de Schutter visited the UK in November and denounced the levels of poverty in the country maintained by the Conservative ...