Automatic enrolment for free school meals is being introduced in Cornwall, the county's council has announced. The move, ...

Over the three-year period from 2022 through 2024, California and Louisiana posted the highest rates under the Supplemental ...

One in five children in rich countries lives in relative poverty, according to a UNICEF report published Thursday that put the US and New Zealand among the worlds worst performers for youth well-being ...

Over 27,000 babies, children and teenagers are growing up in poverty - the equivalent of more than 1,000 classrooms ...

Nearly a quarter of Alderney households are at risk of income poverty, according to the government's latest household income ...

Twenty-one per cent of children in Malta (two per cent higher than the EU average of 19 per cent in 2005) live in relative poverty, the parliamentary committee on social affairs heard. The committee ...

John Swinney has admitted that child poverty in Scotland is not falling fast enough as he declared targets to eradicate it a ...

Thirty years ago, the late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D., N.Y.) wrote a seminal essay titled “Defining Deviancy Down.” He argued that Americans had “become accustomed to alarming levels of crime ...

The Czech Republic is home to one of the more equal societies in terms of household disposable income, and has the lowest level of relative poverty in Europe. This study shows that Czech market income ...

Data recently published by the Department for Work & Pensions shows that the UK has seen the biggest rise in what’s called ‘absolute poverty’ in 30 years. There are two ways of describing poverty in ...