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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

Investment bank JP Morgan called for Britain to cut benefits spending. Naomi McAuliffe, of Amnesty International UK, ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

PROGRESS on child poverty in Scotland is “nowhere near enough”, a charity has said, as thousands marched through Edinburgh to ...