A real-terms increase in funding will not be enough for Scottish councils to run preventative services that help people out of poverty, local leaders have warned.
A rising state pension age and lack of action to support the growing number of people experiencing long-term sickness could push more into poverty, the Health Foundation has warned.
Soaring inflation is likely to put two-thirds of the government’s missions outlined in the Levelling Up White Paper at risk of failure, academics have warned.
Raising the state pension age from 65 to 66 pushed nearly 100,000 65-year-olds into income poverty, leading to calls for more support for people in their 60s to find work.
Seaside towns dominate the latest rankings for personal bankruptcies, adding to evidence that coastal regions are failing to keep pace with the rest of the economy.
More than 700 million people worldwide still live in extreme poverty but it is possible to leverage scarce development resources to help change that, says the World Bank’s Akihiko Nishio.
Groups have called for the housing crisis to be fixed after official figures revealed two homeless people died in England and Wales each day last year.
Food bank use has risen where Universal Credit has been in operation for at least a year – and the five-week wait appears to be a key part of the problem, says The Trussell Trust’s Sumi...
Rising global hunger, aid shortfalls and baby foods full of sugar - all in the Numbers Game from the September 2019 edition of Public Finance magazine.
Concentrating UK aid on large middle-income countries risks reducing the focus on poverty and the government’s new “leaving no one behind” philosophy, a watchdog has said.
The government has side-stepped “the cruellest benefit cut in history” with the latest universal credit changes, according to the chair of the work and pensions committee.
Increasing levels of child poverty are affecting children and young people’s education, with schools dealing with ‘Dickensian’ levels of squalor, a major teaching union has warned.
