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 ...

Radical action is needed if Scotland is to avoid missing child poverty reduction targets by a “large margin”, according to a ...

The level of poverty in Edinburgh has been called ‘absolute disgrace’ by the city’s council leader as she detailed plans to ...

We evaluate progress in the War on Poverty as President Lyndon B. Johnson defined it, which established a 20% baseline poverty rate and adopted an absolute standard. While the official poverty rate ...

FOR LYNDON JOHNSON to wage a successful war on poverty, he first needed to define it. The brainy work was done by Mollie Orshansky, a statistician for the Social Security Administration, who developed ...

ROME, June 16 (Reuters) - The number of Italians living in absolute poverty rose sharply in 2020 to its highest level for at least 15 years as the coronavirus crisis brought economic pain to much of ...

The stark analysis by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) shows that around one in four children (23 per cent) remain in ...

ROME (Reuters) - The number of Italian families living in absolute poverty decreased in 2019 after four straight years of growth, though there is still a significant problem in the underdeveloped ...