Poverty

Tens of thousands of people in the Spanish capital are now turning to food banks and neighbourhood associations to cushion the economic blow of lockdown.

More than 100 organisations, unions and think tanks have published an open letter urging politicians across the UK to act to protect carers from what it describes as a ‘growing poverty crisis’.

A study says the pandemic could push 8% of the world's population into poverty, prompting calls for a huge rescue package for vulnerable communities. "Never in the 75 years history of our institution have so many countries found themselves in need," said IMF head Kristalina Georgieva,

As President-elect von der Leyen and her Commission prepare to take office on December 1, there are already plans being made to tackle poverty in Europe, promoting of quality jobs, and a European Union-wide minimum wage.

There are calls for more financial aid for students in difficulty after a young man set himself alight in Lyon in a protest over precarity.

A UK charity that donates school shoes to children around the world is receiving requests closer to home. Shoes are distributed through baby banks or often requested by concerned teachers.

Filmmaker Ken Loach was in Lyon for the Lumière Film Festival where he spoke to Euronews about his socially aware and realistic cinema.

Save the children in Rome has released its latest edition of the Atlas on At-Risk Children in Italy report on the occasion of the launch of the campaign 'Let's Light Up The Future'.

But France's own living conditions vary widely across the country

Euronews is preparing a special series on inequality and poverty in Europe, key themes of the forthcoming G7 summit in France.

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While attention is focused on opioid crisis, police in Tulsa, Oklahoma are seizing crystal meth in greater quantities than ever before.

In a scathing UN report on poverty in the UK, the UN special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights said one-fifth of the UK's population was living in poverty.

We’re talking to people across Europe about the issues that affect them ahead of May’s European Parliament Elections on our EU road trip which has arrived in Naples. Euronews correspondents Jack Parrock and Elena Cavallone have been speaking to some locals in the suburbs of the Italian city.

Laws meant to protect the most vulnerable people in France have failed, says the UN's special rapporteur on housing.

The official number of homeless people in Europe is not known, their lives a hidden figure. The invisibility of this crisis in the EU flags up policy failures after years of austerity, stagnating wages and increase in house prices. We take a look behind the numbers.