OPINION: Meaningful change on inequality would require real powers for local authorities. Anything else is just noise

Exclusive: World’s biggest food giants made £20bn in profits – while warning of price rises to come

Exclusive: Banned from working, asylum seekers say their £40 a week is not stretching as far amid rising food costs

Incurable illnesses often come with hidden costs – and disproportionately affect the poorest in society

The global food system urgently needs an overhaul to allow diverse crops, producers and supply routes

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Even when measured against the government’s own aims, these tax cuts are likely to fail

Critics warn that people ‘cannot wait for help’ as millions face poverty this winter

Exclusive: As maintenance grants fail to keep pace with inflation, students on low incomes struggle to get by

Exclusive: Energy bills are throwing low-income families into debt shows new data as the price cap rises to £3,549

Exclusive: Youth workers have spoken of ‘a failure of society’ as kids take on responsibility for feeding friends

Losing their homes, struggling for food – cleaners, health and transport workers say strikes are their only option

Housing campaigners warn that renters could be pushed into poverty and homelessness without evictions freeze

Official Ofgem data shows millions of electricity and gas users in arrears for the first quarter of 2022

In this south Wales community, parents skip meals, kids wear coats to bed, and pensioners shower at the local pool

Faced with the first serious bout of inflation in decades, the Bank of England is proving to be almost entirely rudderless

Poor farmers in Guatemala eat little but maize. A first step out of malnutrition is a new seed bred to yield the...

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Women will shoulder some of the worst effects of soaring energy bills. Why doesn’t the government’s energy security...

Britain has homes that are older, draughtier and harder to heat than anywhere else in western Europe. The poor are...

Under IMF reforms, a third of Egyptians are living in poverty. But western institutions are celebrating their ‘success’.

The UK government is due to report to the UN on progress on addressing UK poverty, hunger, inequality. human rights...