On Tuesday, January 14, the organizers of the Close the Workhouse campaign held a press conference showcasing their new report “Close the Workhouse: A Plan and a Vision.” This report showcases the ...

Trauma-informed care offers a paradigm shift in how we treat people who have suffered from trauma. Instead of asking, “What is wrong with you?” trauma-informed care suggests we ask, “What has happened ...

Ireland's National Famine Commemoration will be hosted at the Irish Workhouse Centre in Portumna, Co Galway, on Sunday, May ...

The Child Poverty Action Group has accused work and pensions secretary James Purnell of "reviving the workhouse" through proposals to make the long-term jobless go on work experience in return for ...

The UK’s universal credit programme, which aims to roll six forms of state welfare including unemployment and housing benefits into one, was launched in 2010 with the aim of supporting people to work.

Charlie Chaplin may be internationally renowned for his slapstick comedy, but his childhood was far from a gag. Indeed, the vaudeville star's youth was marked by poverty and misery. After his parents ...

Setting the stage for a bioarchaeology of the great Irish famine -- "An entire nation of paupers": contextualizing poverty and famine in mid-nineteenth-century Ireland and Kilkenny -- A life endured ...