Working-class Brits face genuine hardship, but not the Dickensian destitution that the left seems to imagine.

Data recently published by the Department for Work & Pensions shows that the UK has seen the biggest rise in what’s called ‘absolute poverty’ in 30 years. There are two ways of describing poverty in ...

Official figures going back to 2018 are set to take billions in under-reported benefits income into account.

We evaluate progress in the War on Poverty as President Lyndon B. Johnson defined it, which established a 20% baseline poverty rate and adopted an absolute standard. While the official poverty rate ...