Tag: poverty
UK sees biggest increase in poverty for 30 years
The energy price crisis caused the sharpest increase in absolute poverty in 30 years, official figures show.
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Poverty Rate Soared in 2022 as Aid Ended and Prices Rose
Poverty increased sharply last year in the United States, particularly among children, as living costs rose and federal programs that provided aid to [...]
Africa’s blockchain journey begins with poverty alleviation
There has been a resounding call for Nigeria, and Africa in general, to incorporate blockchain technology into its mainstream living. However, during [...]
PMQs: Sunak pushing families into poverty, says Plaid’s Saville Roberts
The prime minister said the International Monetary Fund (IMF) had strongly "endorsed our plan to halve inflation". Rishi Sunak was responding to the c [...]
Can Politics and Poverty in Fresno Change?
Driving down the last steep grade of Tejon Pass, you come upon a fold in the earth of middle California where the tentacles of Los Angeles end and a n [...]
Safety Net Barriers Add to Child Poverty in Immigrant Families
Both legal immigrants and undocumented parents face hurdles in getting aid. The problem has grown more acute as children of immigrants account for a g [...]
Food poverty: Therese Coffey under fire over work longer hours comment
Speaking after the question session, Ms Maskell said: "It is shocking that the environment secretary shifted blame for food poverty onto people becaus [...]
The US child poverty rate just hit a 50-year low
From President Lyndon B. Johnson’s declaration of a “war on poverty” in 1964 until the end of the 20th century, child poverty declined significantl [...]
Stimulus Spending Drove Poverty Lower Again in 2021, Census Bureau Reports
A measure that accounts for all federal subsidies showed that fewer people experienced severe economic hardship, while health insurance coverage rose. [...]
How Poverty Programs Aided Children From One Generation to the Next
For families in West Virginia, which has had especially sharp drops in child poverty over the past three decades, the shift has played out in ways not [...]
Expanded Safety Net Drives Sharp Drop in Child Poverty
With little public notice and accelerating speed, child poverty fell by 59 percent from 1993 to 2019, according to a comprehensive new analysis that s [...]
PMQs: Raab and Rayner on food banks and poverty
Dominic Raab has told MPs that Labour's deputy leader had "flip flopped" over the rail strikes.The deputy prime minister was responding to Angela Rayn [...]
What’s best at fighting extreme poverty: cash or ultra-poor graduation?
If you want to fight poverty, you probably intuitively feel that the worst-off people are the ones who should be prioritized. As difficult as it is [...]
The expanded child tax credit lifted 3 million children out of poverty. Then, it expired.
Part of the May 2022 issue of The Highlight, our home for ambitious stories [...]
Oxfam slams billionaire pandemic ‘bonanza’ as millions face poverty
Olga Shumytskaya | Moment | Getty ImagesA new billionaire emerged every 30 hours during the Covid-19 pandemic, and nearly a million could fall into ex [...]