At the end of last year in The Holyrood magazine there were a series of posts asking Scottish based political leaders the question ,...

A Scots firm was named in Ukraine arms deal corruption probe in The Glasgow Herald on 27 January 2017. This is no surprise of course to ha...

The number of children relying on food banks in one council area has jumped by almost a quarter in just three months. Statistics compile...

CAPITALISM IS HELL The number of people using food banks in Scotland has risen by two-thirds. A total of 117, 689 people - including...

The Child Poverty Action Group calculates that 220,000 children live in poverty in Scotland. That’s one in five children, but we know that...

In Scotland the poorest households are paying £1,300 a year more than their wealthier neighbours for everyday goods and services. Ther...

The largest food bank in Scotland, which exists to help feed the poverty stricken, has run out of food. The food bank in Glasgow has been ...

A campaign aimed at highlighting the "humanitarian crisis" caused by poverty in Scotland has been launched by a group of charitie...

  Desperate Scots are turning to food banks and soup kitchens in soaring numbers across the country, new research has found. More than 20,0...

Hungry Fifers are going without food for days as times get tougher for low earners. One woman turned up at Dunfermline Foodbank having had ...

Poverty and not Scotland's lack of sun is mainly to blame for a catalogue of illnesses associated with low levels of vitamin D, a new s...

We all see the TV adverts from the Red Cross, UNICEF and Oxfam for donations to aid the starving in third world countries but what we do...

Save the Children’s Scottish leader Neil Mathers said: “Poverty is a scar on Scotland’s society.” Oxfam’s Our Economy report claimed ...

Why are Scots sicker than the rest of the UK? Dr Phil Hanlon and researchers at the Centre for Population Health have compared life, inc...

The recent downward trend in the number of individuals and companies going bankrupt in Scotland has reversed dramatically in recent months,...

Netherlands based international humanitarian aid foundation Cordaid which is active in places such as Africa and Afghanistan, stated  they ...

The Joseph Rowntree Foundation has revealed that 344,000 households in Scotland fall below the Minimum Income Standard (MIS) which is set ...

World Bank chief Jim Yong Kim called for a global drive to wipe out extreme poverty by 2030, acknowledging that reaching the goal will r...

It is not independence most Scot are struggling for - it is to pay their bills. One in six Scots households are raiding their savings to...

Citizens Advice Scotland warned that the number of people in part-time work is pushing many to the brink of poverty. Norma Philpott, chief ...