LONDON — Thea Jaffe pushes a stroller up a steep hill on the morning school run in north London. “It’s like Sisyphus,” she laughs, breathless. Two toddlers jostle in the stroller; her 10-year-old ...

Big Issue founder Lord John Bird renews his calls for a new Whitehall department - focused solely on eradicating poverty in ...

NEWCASTLE, England — At a food bank in a rundown part of northeast England, an unemployed mother and her adult son were having an odd morning. Denise and Michael Hunter typically come here for a quiet ...

The government now faces an urgent decision on how to help millions of people living in fuel poverty in desperately cold ...

Thea Jaffe never expected to use a baby bank. In fact, she was responsible for referring other single parents from her local community group to the charity Little Village, which provides essential ...

A report into poverty in Britain, one of the world’s richest countries, has concluded that millions of low-income families are “surviving not living”, while a growing proportion of the population is ...

POVERTY has been normalised. Walking the streets of London, it is impossible not to be struck by the number of homeless ...

Mark Shucksmith, professor of planning at Newcastle University, Jane Atterton, senior lecturer and manager of the Rural Policy Centre at Scotland's Rural College and Jayne Glass, researcher in ...