#poverty

#poverty

MASERU, Lesotho Puseletso Seema is musical royalty in the tiny African mountain kingdom of Lesotho, where she's known as "the Queen of Famo" - a popular genre of pastoral accordion music beloved by the country's people, the Basotho. But for all her fame, she never got rich, and the 77-year-old grandmother's living conditions these days are far from regal. She resides in a small, run-down home along a dusty road in the rural

If Blackpool was a stick of rock, Little Layton would be a ribbon of pink in the middle. To its left, the deep red of rundown bedsits near the promenade. To its right, the plush green streets of Poulton Le Fylde, where 1m mansions overlook a well-tended golf club. That is to say, Little Layton is one of the nicer parts of Blackpool.

The scramble to replace Angela Rayner as deputy leader of the Labour party is well under way. Apparently, it's inevitable the role will go to a candidate with similar claims to Rayner in terms of that much-vaunted quality, authenticity. Whether Bridget Phillipson or Lucy Powell, the next deputy leader will also be a woman from a working-class family from the north of England.

Here, the author talks about the fears she had about sharing her story, the emotional rollercoaster of her book being adapted for the stage and why she said no to running for office Just over two years ago, I interviewed Katriona O'Sullivan - then a senior lecturer, but now a professor in Maynooth University's department of psychology - in her sparse on-campus office.

Just over two years ago, I interviewed Katriona O'Sullivan - then a senior lecturer, but now a professor in Maynooth University's department of psychology - in her sparse on-campus office. We talked, and cried a little, as she detailed the story that would become her memoir, Poor. A remarkable and powerful account of poverty, addiction, neglect, homelessness and trauma, O'Sullivan recalled how she was born in Coventry to parents battling addiction.

Tariffs aren't just bad for business and consumers: They will also increase the number of Americans living in poverty, according to new research. An analysis out this week from The Budget Lab at Yale University found the Trump administration's new 2025 tariff hikes will increase the number of Americans living in poverty by somewhere between 650,000 and 875,000 in 2026-that's 0.2% to 0.3% of the U.S. population-including some 150,000 to 375,000 children.

In a dimly lit, suffocatingly hot gym in Yemen, bodybuilder Saleh Hussein al-Raidi wraps his hands around rusty barbells, training with steely-eyed resolve for his dream of entering major competitions abroad. But the 24-year-old, who works two jobs to support his family, lacks the means to buy the supplements and protein-rich foods he needs to build bulk, setting him up for a more gruelling fight than many of his opponents.

Not having a home for me and my son made it even harder to get out of survival mode and learn to connect to him.

"These support programs are being cut amid an increased environment of hostility towards LGBTQ+ people. We're really seeing this coming together ... of different pressures that are going to lead to poverty and unemployment among LGBTQ+ people."

"These support programs are being cut amid an increased environment of hostility towards LGBTQ+ people," said Brad Sears, distinguished scholar of law and policy at the Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law. "We're really seeing this coming together ... of different pressures that are going to lead to poverty and unemployment among LGBTQ+ people."

Young people living in the most deprived stretches of England's coastline are three times more likely to be living with an undiagnosed mental health condition than their peers inland.

The world is facing a looming crisis of inequality that could see the first trillionaires emerge while nearly half of humanity still languishes in poverty.

"Analysis of the proposals shows that the impact will be substantial, destroying the financial safety net for too many disabled Londoners," he wrote on social media.

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This fear is felt even more strongly by LGBTQ+ elders, about 40 percent of whom are living below the federal poverty line.

Deiro Gonzalez highlights that the harsh reality of life in pagadiarios includes losing fellow residents with no mourners, emphasizing the loneliness felt by those living there.

I want you to study hard so that you can rescue our family from poverty. Your father and I are poor and the only gift we can give you is an education.