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# Poverty

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Over 600 people arrested in Tunisia after three nights of widespread unrest
Extra €60,000 given to St Vincent de Paul to deal with post-Christmas poverty
Irish project helping to end child marriage in Nepal
'An old man had been taken into Garda custody for knocking on a door. ALONE went to his rescue'
Neglect and abuse of Irish children in institutions led them to set cells on fire and swallow nails
‘I’d drive 5km between my apartment and the academy - it was just littered with homeless kids’
'Left with €15 after bills': The week-to-week struggle of a single parent in Ireland
After 10 years of Hamas rule, Gaza deals with blackouts, poverty, and the constant threat of conflict
‘It's unacceptable that homeless children are being born into BnBs’
Theresa May: People use food banks 'for many complex reasons'
National food shortage sends thousands of starving Venezuelans to root through bins
Suicide is killing the most disadvantaged and vulnerable people in Ireland
Gambian people are using the Irish Credit Union system to get themselves out of poverty
Over 100,000 people who work in Ireland are still living in poverty
Murdered because he was jealous of her success: women at risk in South Africa
Modern Slavery: How children in Dhaka are trying to escape from 12-hour workdays
FactCheck: Is Willie O'Dea right to say Ireland has the highest child poverty rate in the OECD?
Bono named on Glamour's Women of the Year list
Despite incomes increasing, Americans still believe the country is heading in the wrong direction
Boris Johnson giving up 'chicken feed' earnings of £250k a year from column
There is no easy way to escape poverty as a single parent
750,000 people are living in poverty in Ireland - on under €218 a week
Indigenous community declares state of emergency after 11 members attempt suicide in one month
"I was desperate, broke, homeless and unable to break the downward spiral of poverty"
In Hong Kong, poor people are living and dying in 24-hour McDonald's
Give money to charity? Here's what kind of aid actually works
Decisions are being made today that will impact on all our futures
Lone parent with a child over 7? The government wants you to get working
The food sector wants to sell us more for greater profits – but we need to consume less
Today, our Government will condemn thousands of children to even deeper levels of poverty
Could you feed yourself for a week on €6.74? This Irish lady did just that
Bollywood actor jailed after drunkenly ploughing SUV into homeless men
If we truly care about our children, we should prove it
One in five Irish children go to school or bed hungry. This has to stop.
A poor Irish kid turned out to be one of America’s most famous bank robbers
There are now 1,826 billionaires in the world (as the gap between rich and poor widens further)
Column: Can one person make a difference in the world?
One in eight Irish children live in deprivation
Column: Meet the Irish man managing global change on behalf of everyone on the planet
Opinion: Austerity cuts that directly affect women and children have been piled on by this government