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Children ‘slipping into poverty’ due to cost-of-living crisis, warns charity

Barnardo’s surveyed parents to find out their concerns amid financial struggles.

The Independent UK

Fury at BP oil boss's £10million bonus while Brits struggle with sky-high bills

BP chief executive Bernard Looney could be in line for a fat paypacket but the End Fuel Poverty Coalition slammed the 'champagne lifestyle for energy bosses' while struggling Brits suffer in 'cold, damp homes'

Daily Mirror

Glasgow Deliveroo customers donate over 27,000 meals to help food banks

Over 11,000 customers in the city have donated through the app since April 2022 in a bid to help tackle poverty by joining forces with the Trussell Trust.

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The tough Edinburgh estate where neighbours had to 'house watch' when locals went out

The West Granton estate was the focus of an ITN news feature as a reporter spoke to those on the scheme about the issues of inadequate housing, poverty, crime and rampant drug use.

Edinburgh Live

85% of Lebanese People Suffer from Multidimensional Poverty

Rabih, a father of three, lamented that the economic crisis in Lebanon now means that he can no longer feed his children enough. He also has to support his sick mother, saying providing her with medical care is his top priority. “We can no longer afford hospital treatment. We can…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Afternoon Update: jobseeker lifts by $1.77 a day; asexuality misunderstood; and has Italy found its AOC?

Acoss says welfare payment still ‘well below the poverty line’

The Guardian - AU

Microfinance promises women a future instead it traps them in debt

Micro loans promised Sri Lankan and Cambodian women affected by war a way out of poverty as they rebuilt their lives. Instead the loans trapped them in debt.

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‘It’s going to be devastating’: End of emergency food benefits expected to impact millions of Californians

SAN JOSE, Calif. — A gallon of milk, a dozen eggs, a loaf of bread, a pound of chicken: That may be all the groceries some Californians can buy each month with their CalFresh benefits now that emergency federal pandemic funds that boosted food benefits have ended.

Tribune News Service

Our city has a drinking problem but there are signs of recovery

With Liverpool ranked third in the country for alcoholism, we look at the different factors behind the problem in the city and the important work being done to address it

Liverpool Echo

Energy crisis: April's £500 bills hike set to be scrapped

There are rumours that next month's bills are being prepared as if the £2,500 cap will stay have sparked poverty campaigners' hopes

Chronicle Live

New Universal Credit rule change could see people forced to attend jobcentre 10 times over two-week period

The DWP staff union warns the change will increase the risk of poverty for working claimants.

Daily Record

DWP benefit cap 'fallacy' impacting 350 Bristol families, new figures reveal

"It doesn’t incentivise work, it leaves children hungry"

Bristol Post

Campaigner Harry Leslie Smith was bridge to past - with warnings of ravaged NHS future

Harry Leslie Smith would have turned 100 this week and, as Ros Wynne-Jones writes, all of us who loved him miss his wisdom as Britain confronts one of the most challenging periods since his own childhood

Daily Mirror

Friday essay: how policies favouring rich, older people make young Australians Generation F-d

Working to buy your own home is a rite of passage in Australia, firmly rooted in a time when government delivered plentiful, affordable housing. Following the senseless poverty and destitution inflicted by price-gouging landlords during the Depression, we created a better, more equitable housing system after World War II.

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Thinking of having a baby as the planet collapses? First, ask yourself 5 big ethical questions

Do you want to have a baby? But, on a planet rocked by the climate crisis, ecosystem collapse, famine and poverty, is having one just adding to the problem – and therefore unethical?

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on the Home Office: residency rules are prolonging misery

Editorial: The 10-year route to settlement forces people into poverty and separates them from society. It shouldn’t be this way

Leeds Live

I asked for a 'white envelope' at Tesco - but left feeling upset and embarrassed

There has been some confusion around the initiative

Nottingham Post

Lee Anderson claims family were in McDonald's 'two or three times a week' while using food bank

Lee Anderson secured a Westminster Hall debate on the subject of food poverty, where he also said it was a 'myth' that everyone on Universal Credit was in poverty.

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Francis Wilkinson: Poor voters are losing out in the culture wars

The federal government says that 38 million Americans live in poverty. In addition, tens of millions live above the poverty line but in more or less permanent financial insecurity. Who represents the interests of all these people?

Daily Mirror

New figures expose 'fallacy' of benefit cap 'work incentive', child poverty group says

Ministers are now facing calls to abandon the cap - around £1,666 per month for a couple per month outside London - which one expert said makes 'no logical sense'

Daily Mirror

Lee Anderson stokes fury with claim families 'using food banks then going to McDonald's'

The divisive Tory deputy chairman claimed that receiving Universal Credit isn't an indication that families are in poverty - and said he'd contacted a local school to find out why they'd been offering free breakfasts

Asharq Al-Awsat

Lebanese Supermarkets Mark Prices in Dollars as Local Currency Tanks

Supermarkets in Lebanon started pricing items in US dollars on Wednesday instead of the nose-diving local currency, after a government announcement allowing the practice in a country heavily reliant on imports. Since late 2019, Lebanon has been facing a dramatic economic crisis that has seen poverty rates climb to reach…

Evening Standard

Number of children in food poverty nearly doubles in a year to 4 million

Parents are worried about the physical and mental impact on children

The Independent UK

Feed the future: Public agree that government should extend free school meals, exclusive poll reveals

First national poll since our campaign shows strong rise in public support for extension of free school meals as child food poverty doubles in a year

The Guardian - UK

Number of UK children in food poverty nearly doubles in a year to 4m

Support grows for expansion of free school meals to struggling families in face of rising hunger

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