Scott Morrison doubled JobSeeker payments, temporarily shielding millions from poverty. As costs rise and poverty rates ...

The real question is whether the US ever will. The current federal poverty line for the 48 contiguous states and Washington, DC, is $15,060 a year for one person, $20,440 for a family of two ...

Germany has a poverty problem. Despite the country’s vast wealth, the German social security system is failing many people.

Charities warn millions of families were already 'living on a knife-edge' before sweeping Government reforms to welfare ...

Research has found nearly a million people – including 200,000 children – in the UK are just £10 a month away from the poverty line, with millions of households around the country going without ...

The World Bank’s Poverty and Shared Prosperity series provides the latest estimates and trends in global poverty and shared prosperity. The 2022 edition provides the first comprehensive look at the ...

This is likely because as households move out of poverty in cities, they often hover right above the poverty line, one employment loss or illness away from falling back into deprivation. Although ...

But payment levels remain below the poverty line. That’s according to Australia’s Economic Inclusion Advisory Committee’s 2025 report, released this week a fortnight ahead of the federal ...

At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground ... including 50,000 children, could fall into poverty by 2029/2030 following Rachel Reeves’s sweeping welfare cuts ...

according the official figure that comes a day after government estimates suggested welfare cuts will plunge thousands more children below the poverty line by the end of the decade. These 4.45 ...

The World Bank defines poverty using the International Poverty Line, which designates extreme poverty at $2.15 per person per day, while $3.65 falls under the lower-middle income category ...