Old-Age Poverty

Poverty in Britain remains stubbornly high, with more than one in five people now living in deprivation, a new report has warned. The Joseph Rowntree Foundation said hardship is set to deepen further unless the government takes stronger action before the end of the current parliament. Poverty in Britain remains…

A singer-songwriter and the first African to ever win the Swiss Blues Award, Justina Lee Brown came into the spotlight in 2008 with her hit song, Omo 2 Sexy, and over the years, her music has evolved from Afropop into funk, soul, blues, rock, and jazz. In this story, we…

About 141 million Nigerians have been projected to fall into abject poverty in 2026, as Nigeria’s poverty rate is projected to rise exponentially to 62 per cent this year, PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Nigeria Economic Outlook 2026 report reveals. According to the report, poverty rate, which stood at 59% in 2024, rose to…

NEW DELHI — The world’s largest public employment plan, India’s job guarantees for rural workers, could be hollowed out by new legislation, the program’s defenders warn. Two decades ago, India launched what many economists and development experts hailed as a revolutionary program that enshrined employment as a right and reduced…

LEADING opposition figures have kicked against the commencement of the new tax reforms, today, as insisted by the Federal Government, warning that the move could worsen poverty in the country. The post Tax Laws: ADC, LP, NANS, others kick as implementation begins today appeared first on Vanguard News...Read More

Next month, Donald Trump will welcome a poverty-stricken family to peruse his plans for a $300m glitzy state ballroom in the White House. The event will be staged as part of National Poverty in America Awareness Month, the time every year when charities document the number of US residents surviving…

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Friday, December 19, 2025, declared intensified war on banditry, fiscal waste and poverty as he presented the 2026 Appropriation Bill to a joint session of the national assembly, outlining a budget he said would move Nigeria “from survival to growth.” The President said the 2026…

Homeless people congregate in Buenos Aires in March. Poverty in 2024 had climbed to the highest level recorded since the series began in 2005, while it now stands at its lowest point since 2018. File Photo by Juan Roncoroni/EPA BUENOS AIRES, Dec. 5 (UPI) -- Income-based poverty in Argentina fell…

By Cyriacus Nnaji Poverty has become such a hydra-headed phenomenon in Nigeria that scholars and critical stakeholders can no longer stay on the sidelines and watch, the discussion is now on high tempo on how to dismantle poverty in Nigeria. This is obviously part of the Objectives, on Tuesday, 2nd…

Marc Jayson Cayabyab - The Philippine Star November 23, 2025 | 12:00am Senator Risa Hontiveros on November 20, 2025. STAR / Ryan Baldemor MANILA, Philippines — Sen. Risa Hontiveros has filed her version of the measure seeking to ban from elective positions members of political dynasties, which she blamed for…