Social safety net programmes, such as Open Market Sales (OMS) and Vulnerable Group Feeding (VGF), provided less help to the actual poor, despite the government boasting about the impact of those ...

In the Philippines, around 1.9% of the working population are in extreme poverty or living below the poverty line of $2.15 a day last year, up from the 0.55% in 2023, according to the International ...

A new report from Statistics Canada says 12.5 per cent of Nova Scotians lived below the poverty line in 2022, compared with a ...

Among the provinces, the report found that Nova Scotia had the highest rate of poverty, with 12.5 per cent of the population in 2022 unable to afford the basic basket of goods. British Columbia had ...

THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — One in five recent immigrants lived below the poverty line in Canada in 2022, and most of them were in "deep poverty," according to a report ...

One in five recent immigrants lived below the poverty line in Canada in 2022, and most of them were in “deep poverty,” according to a report Thursday from Statistics Canada. The report studied ...