British children face higher levels of poverty than any other group in society, and with 71 per cent of them being raised in ...

A charity has said that 'urgent action' is needed after new figures showed that 1.9 million older people are currently living in poverty.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, one in ten older adults in the U.S. — or 5.9 million individuals 65 or over — lives in poverty, although the percentage varies from state to state.

David W. Rasmussen, Florida State University (THE CONVERSATION) In 1959, more than a third of all elderly Americans lived in poverty. Slashing that number to under 10 percent by the late 1990s was ...