Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Illustration by iStock / Getty Images Plus. Whether you call it “affordability” or “inequality,” economic insecurity is emerging ...

Lauren McNally recalls when the checks began showing up at her house in 2021. As part of the expanded, refundable child tax ...

Gender differences in poverty rates in the United States may be associated with women's differing circumstances—particularly the burden of dependent children—rather than inherent to gender itself, ...

Since taking office in 2024, the First Minister has made the eradication of child poverty his driving mission, but the Government remains well short of reducing the rate – which currently sits at 22% ...

The rate of at risk of poverty increased last year, to 12.6 per cent, the highest it has been in the past five years, according to the latest Central Statistics Office (CSO) assessment on household ...

The job market is hard, and traditional career paths aren't delivering the financial independence and security people hoped ...

Doc director Jeanie Finlay ('Your Fat Friend') loves to go hyperlocal and give a voice, in the local accent, to fishermen and ...

Cost-of-living measures implemented by the Government last year reduced the number of people who were at risk of poverty, according to a study by the Central Statistics Office.

MSS’s annual report and new mapping tool highlight where development, income shifts and housing costs are reshaping neighborhoods—and where social risk is highest.

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The government is in the process of conducting a review of universal credit (UC), the main means-tested benefit for working-age people, received by 6.3 million families at any one time. This report ...

A total of £65,000 has been spent on extending the scheme and has been used to assist with the purchase of basic items to allow residents to sustain their new tenancy.