Poverty

One in three Greeks live in conditions of poverty social exclusion, compared to an average of one in four citizens in European Union countries,...

September 7, 2017 The economic crisis continues to plague Greek households struggling too make ends meet – month in, month out. A survey conducted by...

Most Greeks Cannot Afford a Week’s Holiday By Tasos Kokkinidis Aug 1, 2017 More than 50% of Greeks cannot afford a week’s holiday according to data...

Exclusive: The European Union’s neoliberal economic orthodoxy has spread income inequality and even poverty across the Continent, spurring extremist movements to challenge this system,...

By Phillip Chrysopoulos The poverty in Greece increased by 40% from 2008 to 2015, according to a Cologne Institute of Economic Research study on European...

The loss of a quarter of economic output and the increase in the unemployment rate close to 28 percent at one point have been widely and repeatedly reported as Greece has struggled through a state of perma-crisis in recent years

By Telesur More than 2 million Bolivians have come out of extreme poverty in the last decade. Bolivia’s economy is on course to grow by 5...

The number of unemployed young people worldwide between the ages of 15 and 24 will rise to 71 million this year, increasing for the first time since 2013. This is the news from the annual World Employment and Social Outlook report released this week by the International Labour Organization (ILO)

The effects of of globalisation on income distributions in rich countries have been studied extensively. This column takes a different approach by looking at developments in global incomes from 1988 to 2008. Large real income gains have been made by people around the median of the global income distribution and by those in the global top 1%. However, there

A new study finds that roughly 26 million Americans remain "too poor to shop". The study, performed by America's Research Group, found that about...