Campaigners are stepping up the pressure on the Government to scrap the two-child benefit cap after figures show tens of thousands of young people in the North East are growing up in poverty. The ...

The UK government recently unveiled its child poverty strategy, with the removal of the two-child limit on benefits payments as the centrepiece. What’s sobering is how desperately the UK needs a ...

More than half of children and teenagers in Argentina live in poverty, with the crisis hitting hardest in the greater Buenos Aires region.

The number of people living in poverty in the UK has risen by almost half a million, according to new figures. There were an estimated 13.40 million individuals in households below the poverty line in ...