RARE PHOTOS: 39 - The Real Truth

If You’re Broke in These 6 States, You’re Basically Trapped There

Being broke is never easy, but being broke in some U.S. states is more than just a financial setback. It’s a full-on trap. A quick...

Saving Advice · May 28, 2025

Voices: Gillian Anderson’s new film is picture-postcard perfect… but it doesn’t show the real Cornwall

COMMENT: The South West is a place of beauty, but also poverty, says Thomas Horn. While ‘The Salt Path’ will no doubt inspire visitors, it won’t even begin to scrape the surface of the county’s real issues

The Independent UK · May 28, 2025

Push to make period poverty an issue of the past

An Australian charity wants to change the lives of girls living in rural Cambodia by providing access to menstrual education and sanitary products.

AAP · May 27, 2025

Two-child benefit cap – the cost, effect and what people are saying about it

Organisations working in the sector argue that 109 children across the UK are pulled into poverty by the policy every day.

Evening Standard · May 27, 2025

I walked across the south of America in a Black Lives Matter shirt — this is what happened

Documentary maker Rob Bliss set out on an epic journey to the Deep South in 2020. Cue the threats

Evening Standard · May 27, 2025

Ministers ‘considering’ scrapping two-child benefit cap after Farage vows to axe it

Nigel Farage will try and outflank Labour on benefits in a fresh appeal to working people on Tuesday

The Independent UK · May 27, 2025

Reform UK’s income tax plans ‘to cost up to £80bn’ warns IFS – as it happened

Research institute says costs of plan to exclude those earning less than £20k from the tax will dwarf those of party’s winter fuel and two-child benefit changes

The Guardian - UK · May 27, 2025

Minister gives strongest sign yet Labour could end two-child benefit limit

Bridget Phillipson says it is party’s ‘moral mission’ to ensure fewer children grow up in poverty

The Guardian - UK · May 27, 2025

Scrapping two-child benefit cap ‘not off the table’, says Education Secretary

The Government’s child poverty strategy, which was due to be published in the spring, is now set to come out in the autumn.

Evening Standard · May 27, 2025

A family digs through trash for bits of food, showing Gaza's growing desperation

Before the war, it was rare in Gaza to see anyone searching through garbage for anything, despite widespread poverty

The Independent UK · May 27, 2025