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Poverty

June 2026

  • A man kneels down among rows vegetables.

    ‘I fear people will go to war over water’: as wells run dry, farmers struggle to survive in Bangladesh

  • An excavator on a construction site with workers in high-visibility vests and scaffolding-clad buildings behind

    Social housing lists ‘would take 119 years to clear at current building rate’

  • Aerial image shows Kya Sands (left) and Bloubosrand (right) in Johannesburg, South Africa.

    ‘Happiness is not just about GDP’: ambitious plan or utopia?

  • People wade through flood waters after heavy monsoon rains in Feni, south-eastern Bangladesh, 24 August 2024.

    double quotation markA good life for the 99% isn’t a pipe dream: it can be done. Here’s how

    Thomas Piketty, Lucas Chancel, Cornelia Mohren, Rowaida Moshrif, Moritz Odersky and Anmol Somanchi

  • Against the tide
    Deprivation, resilience and a giant bunny: Polly Braden on capturing the ‘beauty and bleakness’ of young lives on the coast

  • ‘Quite shocking’: why was a vulnerable customer sent a £8,400 energy bill?

  • What Blair gets wrong about the economy – it is fired by people, not business

  • Ex-prisoners abandoned at their most vulnerable

  • The fight for democracy
    ‘They want the country to be what it was in 1776’: anger in Memphis after Republicans redraw voting maps

  • Australia’s 178 billionaires are $25.7bn richer than last year as 3.7 million live in poverty

  • Better sleep, improved health, happier people: how ‘cool roofs’ could help millions avoid deadly heat

May 2026

  • tents and belongings on sidewalk outside building with american flag

    California reports one of largest drops in homelessness in past year, Hud reports

  • A silhouette of a person's head behind vertical white bars, with one red bar among them

    Falling through the cracks: ex-prisoners who died within two weeks of release

  • Composite image of Faye and Josh

    Rise in youth unemployment driving more to homelessness, UK charities say

  • A computer illustration of Corynebacterium diphtheriae, the bacteria that cause diphtheria

    double quotation markDiphtheria is a disease of poverty that has no place in modern Australia. When we talk about Closing the Gap, this is the gap

    Donna Ah Chee

  • Ministers urged to press ahead with UK ban on zero-hours contracts

  • Against the tide
    Vape shops but no jobs: one young man’s search for work in Grimsby

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  • Against the tide
    ‘I’m throwing everything at it’: one young man’s search for a job in Britain’s ‘worklessness capital’

  • Criminal review – homelessness show delivers a rage-making punch in the gut

  • ‘They’ve taken all my stuff’: councils across Australia threaten homeless people with fines and confiscation of belongings

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