Gordon Brown calls for gambling tax to cut child poverty
Former Labour Prime Minister Gordon Brown has repeated his call for higher taxes on gambling to lift half a million…
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Older adults on ‘edge of poverty’ lose jobs and funding as new Medicaid and SNAP work requirements loom
A job-training program for low-income older adults has lost funding just as new work requirements to qualify for benefits such…
Forced back from Iran, Afghans face drought, poverty and repression | Refugees
At the transit camp in Islam Qala in western Afghanistan, Fatima steps out of the bus into the blazing heat…
Share of people worldwide ‘thriving’ hits new high, survey says | Poverty and Development News
More people globally report living closer to their ‘best possible life’, Gallup says. People across the globe are living better…
Children living in ‘Dickensian’ poverty, says commissioner
Getty Images Some children are living in “Dickensian” levels of poverty, England’s children’s commissioner has said. Dame Rachel de Souza…
‘Village of one kidney’: India-Bangladesh organ traffickers rob poor donors | Poverty and Development
Joypurhat/Dhaka, Bangladesh, and New Delhi/Kolkata, India – Under the mild afternoon sun, 45-year-old Safiruddin sits outside his incomplete brick-walled house…
Revised UK welfare reforms to push 150,000 into poverty
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.…
Once-in-a-decade UN conference on development aid kicks off in Spain | Poverty and Development News
At least 50 world leaders gather in Seville to address global concerns, including hunger, climate change and healthcare. The United…
Reform UK gains support in areas with high child poverty
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.…
Photos: A free clinic for donkeys, vital to Ethiopia’s economy | Poverty and Development News
Ethiopia is believed to host the world’s largest population of donkeys – one in five of the global total, according…