Education is another casualty of poverty. Nigeria has more than 20 million out-of-school children ... slums in Lagos and Port Harcourt to hunger-stricken villages in the North.

A record 4.5 million children in the UK are living in poverty, government data has revealed a day after the chancellor doubled down on welfare cuts which will push tens of thousands more into poverty.

The number of children in poverty in the UK has reached its highest level since comparative records began in 2002. In the year to April 2024, there were 4.45 million children living in a household ...

One in ten parents living in poverty say their children have been bullied for being poor, grim new research shows today. The poll of 2,000 parents of school-aged children living on the lowest ...

The farmer had never grown coffee in her village in western South Sudan, but now hopes a rare, climate-resistant species will help pull her family from poverty. “I want to send my children to ...

The prime minister has been urged to rethink the Conservative-era limit after the Resolution Foundation said his strategy to tackle child poverty would lack credibility if it remains in place.

The findings are indeed troubling with the paper declaring that Filipino children “are more likely to live in poverty than the general population as evidenced by higher poverty incidences since 2006.” ...

Hochul vetoes 2 child care bills, drawing advocates’ ire A consistent, across the board earned income disregard like this could be worth another 2.9% reduction in statewide childhood poverty ...

Syracuse, N.Y. — Syracuse has the nation’s worst child poverty among larger U.S. cities, according to new census estimates released Thursday. The city had a child poverty rate of 45.6% in ...

Dr. Boozary addresses this heartbreaking reality, drawing on firsthand experiences with ... Having grown up in a middle-class family, I had no fear as a small child that I would end up as a ...

Actress Maddy Smedley, who appeared in the first series of The Traitors, will guest star in Call the Midwife this Christmas, playing a pregnant, poverty-stricken mother whose family are evicted ...

South Tyneside Council spearheads efforts with a new Child Poverty Strategy to tackle rising child poverty rates with comprehensive support measures. Partners from across the North East came ...