Follow TNM's WhatsApp channel for news updates and story links.On 1 November 2025, the Government of Kerala announced that it ...

After the Kerala government declared itself free from extreme poverty on November 1, poverty is back again in public ...

The Kerala government’s grand declaration that it was the first state to “eradicate extreme poverty” has raised eyebrows.

The city of Greenwood will be expanding its animal ordinance to expand the definition of dangerous dogs and make it illegal ...

Rates of child poverty in WA have doubled in a decade, but there is a severe lack of crisis accommodation, prompting experts ...

Back in the 1980s when I was a post-graduate student pursuing economics at the Gokhale Institute in Pune, we were perhaps the ...

The national ‘cost of basic needs’ line places about 21.9pc of the population below the poverty threshold, based on 2018-2019 ...

Other families are also doing it tough. Data released by the Curtin Economics Centre and the Valuing Children Initiative on ...

HOW we understand and measure poverty has evolved. From early income-based definitions, Nobel laureate Amartya Sen’s ...

Across Britain, families that once felt solidly middle class are losing their footing as rents, child care costs and food prices outpace wages.

It is estimated scrapping the cap would cost the Government between £3-£3.5 billion by the end of this parliament.

But one thing is certain, Kerala does not have the stark poverty that one sees in many other States. Kerala’s bountiful ...