Responding to the latest poverty statistics showing that 28% of children, 23% of working-age adults and 11% of pensioners were in material deprivation in 2024, Liberal Democrat Work and Pensions spoke ...

John Swinney has said efforts to eradicate child poverty will be “more challenging” as a result of the welfare changes made ...

While far below the UK rate of 31 per cent, this is a significant miss against the Scottish government's target. The government had set an interim target of lowering child poverty to 18 per cent by ...

The latest official statistics on household incomes show dramatic falls, but there is reason to doubt their reliability.

Legally-binding targets were set by the Scottish Parliament in 2017 to reduce the number of youngsters in relative poverty.

Chancellor Rachel Reeves' spring statement is set to make the situation even worse. They are continuing the Tory legacy ...

CPAG analysis shows that child poverty will rise even higher by the end of this parliament to 4.8 million, unless the government “takes urgent action including scrapping the two-child limit in its ...

Child poverty figures are down, but they fall short of the Scottish government's interim target.

Anti-poverty groups have reacted to figures showing the Scottish government has missed its legal targets for reducing child ...

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 ...

POVERTY NUMBERS Bankers and economists both deal with poverty in their own peculiar ways. Bankers count money, economists ...