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Poverty

All time
family poverty
Poverty has doubled among working parents over five-year period, SVP report finds
5 Mar 2019
14.7k
63
Deprivation
Nearly 16% of Irish households at risk of poverty last year while disposable income increased
17 Dec 2018
13.7k
33
Charity
Irish charity founder in Kenya works 6 days a week and pays himself €300 a month
26 Aug 2018
48.8k
45
Opinion
Poverty: 'There is a dominant narrative that seeks to blame people for their circumstances'
Dr Tricia Keilthy
12 Jun 2018
24.7k
141
poverty line
Opinion: 'In modern Ireland, you are invisible without money'
Audry Deane
25 May 2018
22.6k
44
MABS
Poorer households turning to pre-pay heating - but that means they pay a 'poverty premium'
16 Feb 2018
35.1k
98
deprived
'Significant gap': Lone parents and those with disabilities among the most deprived in Ireland
31 Jan 2018
17.9k
41
Poverty
Roma children living in 'overcrowded houses with rats, damp and sewage'
18 Jan 2018
27.7k
37
tunisia
Over 600 people arrested in Tunisia after three nights of widespread unrest
11 Jan 2018
9.0k
21
Struggles
Extra €60,000 given to St Vincent de Paul to deal with post-Christmas poverty
31 Dec 2017
12.6k
66
Girls not Brides
Irish project helping to end child marriage in Nepal
31 Dec 2017
11.4k
4
Read Me
'An old man had been taken into Garda custody for knocking on a door. ALONE went to his rescue'
Valerie Cox
26 Nov 2017
35.7k
8
custody
Neglect and abuse of Irish children in institutions led them to set cells on fire and swallow nails
3 Sep 2017
31.9k
49
Feature
‘I’d drive 5km between my apartment and the academy - it was just littered with homeless kids’
20 Aug 2017
31.1k
3
Poverty
'Left with €15 after bills': The week-to-week struggle of a single parent in Ireland
23 Jul 2017
73.3k
141
the strip
After 10 years of Hamas rule, Gaza deals with blackouts, poverty, and the constant threat of conflict
17 Jun 2017
11.2k
62
sister stan
‘It's unacceptable that homeless children are being born into BnBs’
30 May 2017
10.2k
18
sparking outrage
Theresa May: People use food banks 'for many complex reasons'
30 Apr 2017
29.4k
89
Economic crisis
National food shortage sends thousands of starving Venezuelans to root through bins
11 Mar 2017
12.4k
61
inequality
Suicide is killing the most disadvantaged and vulnerable people in Ireland
6 Mar 2017
17.1k
30
access
Gambian people are using the Irish Credit Union system to get themselves out of poverty
12 Feb 2017
30.4k
10
working poor
Over 100,000 people who work in Ireland are still living in poverty
1 Feb 2017
22.0k
98
hell at home
Murdered because he was jealous of her success: women at risk in South Africa
3 Jan 2017
19.0k
11
Child Workers
Modern Slavery: How children in Dhaka are trying to escape from 12-hour workdays
27 Dec 2016
14.1k
16
FactCheck
FactCheck: Is Willie O'Dea right to say Ireland has the highest child poverty rate in the OECD?
11 Dec 2016
20.1k
66
mysterious ways
Bono named on Glamour's Women of the Year list
2 Nov 2016
19.8k
60
keep the recovery going
Despite incomes increasing, Americans still believe the country is heading in the wrong direction
17 Sep 2016
9.1k
27
Poverty
Boris Johnson giving up 'chicken feed' earnings of £250k a year from column
18 Jul 2016
31.7k
36
Opinion
There is no easy way to escape poverty as a single parent
Anonymous
18 Jul 2016
8.8k
82
working poor
750,000 people are living in poverty in Ireland - on under €218 a week
5 Jul 2016
45.9k
84
Canada
Indigenous community declares state of emergency after 11 members attempt suicide in one month
12 Apr 2016
26.7k
21
Sponsored
"I was desperate, broke, homeless and unable to break the downward spiral of poverty"
14 Dec 2015
17.6k
18
mcrefugees
In Hong Kong, poor people are living and dying in 24-hour McDonald's
14 Nov 2015
21.3k
12
Impact
Give money to charity? Here's what kind of aid actually works
22 Sep 2015
23.1k
25
Opinion
Decisions are being made today that will impact on all our futures
Hans Zomer
13 Jul 2015
169
31
Back to Work
Lone parent with a child over 7? The government wants you to get working
2 Jul 2015
23.2k
44
Opinion
The food sector wants to sell us more for greater profits – but we need to consume less
Ross Golden-Bannon
30 Jun 2015
313
21
Opinion
Today, our Government will condemn thousands of children to even deeper levels of poverty
Karen Kiernan
25 Jun 2015
425
124
Live Below the Line
Could you feed yourself for a week on €6.74? This Irish lady did just that
10 May 2015
92.6k
130
fearless
Bollywood actor jailed after drunkenly ploughing SUV into homeless men
6 May 2015
10.8k
9
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