Poverty

BBC’s startling account of the wave of poverty in Britain

NOURNEWS – While London, through media agitation and foreign interventionism, seeks to project itself as a moral and…

When the Numbers Weep: Poverty in an Age of Plenty

NOURNEWS – More than half a billion people in Africa live below the absolute poverty line—surviving on less than three…

Immense Wealth and Widespread Poverty: Paradox of Our Time

NOURNEWS – In a world where trillions of dollars flow through financial markets every day, hundreds of millions of…

President’s aide says sanctions, policies that impeded their removal changed poverty ‘from exception to rule’

An aide to President Pezeshkian says sanctions and domestic policies that hindered their removal have turned poverty…

Three million UK children living below poverty line: Study

A record 9.3 million people, including three million children, are facing hunger and hardship in the UK, a study said…

Kids in poverty: Britain's shame

In the UK there are currently over four million children living in poverty, the highest number in twenty years. One…

World Bank reports 37% drop in Iran’s poverty headcount ratio in two years

A recent report by the World Bank suggests that the percentage of the Iranian population living below the poverty line…

Biggest rise in ‘absolute poverty’ for 30 years seen in UK

The United Kingdom has seen the biggest rise in “absolute poverty” in 30 years, according to new data published by the…

Horrific statistics

The discovery of the body of the two-year-old child "Branson Battersby" and his 60-year-old father, Kenneth, in their…

Income Inequality and its Associated Negative Outcomes in the USA

Since the 1970’s, most member countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) have…