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Energy firms accused of using pre-payment meters to 'cut off customers by the back door'

Campaigners from the End Fuel Poverty Coalition have called for an end to pre-payment meters which they say will cause the deaths of several people this winter in the UK

Daily Mirror

Editorial: Congress can help struggling families by reviving the expanded child tax credit

For a six-month period last year, something life-changing happened for tens of millions of American families: They started receiving automatic monthly payments of as much as $300 per child to use for whatever they needed.

Los Angeles Times

Tyler Cowen: Fight poverty, not income inequality

Wealth and income inequality have recently gone down in the U.S. and other parts of the West, and the decline has been going on for the better part of the last decade. Yet it is not clear, to me at least, whether this is something to celebrate.

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Campaigners call for ban on pre-payment meters installed under court warrants

The End Fuel Poverty Coalition says energy companies may be using them as a 'back-door' way of disconnecting customers who fall into debt

Wales Online

Calls for UK ban on pre-payment meter installations made under court warrants

End Fuel Poverty Coalition fears energy suppliers are using warrants to disconnect poorest ‘by the back door’

The Guardian - UK

Northern Territory doctor tells Kumanjayi Walker coronial inquest it is 'impossible' to raise healthy children in remote communities

The coroner investigating the death of Kumanjayi Walker has been told an understanding of the difficulty raising healthy children in the poverty of remote communities is "missing across every profession in the NT".

ABC News

Ban pre-payment meter installations through court warrants – campaigners

The End Fuel Poverty Coalition raised concerns that firms were using PPMs ‘as a method of revenue protection’.

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Charity calls for review into scale and severity of child food poverty

London’s child poverty charity, The Childhood Trust, said food banks were playing a crucial role in helping families struggling with food insecurity.

The Independent UK

Why is JobSeeker going to be reviewed? Will it go up?

Starting next year, the income support payments that millions of Australians rely on will be scrutinised by an expert committee, but the government is making it clear that while it will listen to its advice, it won't necessarily follow it.

ABC News

Edinburgh charity Social Bite's new campaign launched by actor Martin Kemp

As the cost of living crisis will surely hit those vulnerable the hardest, Martin Kemp, Emma and Matt Willis are encourage the people of Edinburgh to donate, if they can, to help those who needed most.

Edinburgh Live

Parents hit by bills crisis making ‘impossible choices between nappies and food’, charity warns

On The Breadline: ‘My daughter is having to deal with things way beyond her age. It breaks my heart,’ one mother tells campaigns editor David Cohen

The Independent UK

Commentary: The world population hit 8 billion — but with a peak in sight. What lessons does that have for climate change?

In the 1960s and ‘70s, global population growth was a huge concern. Scientists and the popular press spoke of a population explosion that threatened to cause famine, poverty and depletion of the Earth’s natural resources. The world’s population had grown at an accelerating rate from just under 1 billion in…

Los Angeles Times

How optimism can close the Medicaid coverage gap

More than 2 million low-income people — half of them in Florida and Texas — are uninsured because they are stuck in a coverage gap: They earn too much to qualify for Medicaid, but because of a quirk of the Affordable Care Act, they earn too little to qualify for…

Tribune News Service

I was forced to turn to foodbanks after being made redundant - now I help feed others with dignity and respect

Lewey Hellewell founded Humans MCR after his own 'undignifed' experiences of food banks

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Help the hungry in Greater Manchester as we launch Christmas campaign to tackle food poverty

Humans MCR distribute food parcels to the families who are struggling to feed themselves

The Guardian - UK

Competence, what competence? Tory chancellors like Jeremy Hunt always spell disaster

Look at the record, from Lawson to Osborne –they have consistently overseen rises in poverty and falls in the pound, says Best for Britain’s Naomi Smith

WEKU

Diamond diggers in South Africa's deserted mines break the law — and risk their lives

Photos show the desperate search for scraps left by big diamond operators. But amid rampant poverty and unemployment, zama-zamas see no other way to provide for their families.

The Guardian - UK

Millions of households will be spending nearly third of income on fuel by spring

Findings come amid mounting evidence that the poorest people in the UK are paying a ‘poverty premium’ for basic services

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The Observer view on fuel poverty measures freezing out poorest Britons

New analysis reveals the least affluent need urgent government support this winter

ABC News

Breaking the shame around menstruation: WNBL MVP Anneli Maley on period pride

As the WNBL launches its "Fighting Period Poverty" round, reigning MVP Anneli Maley hopes women can be proud of their periods, and that men can get in on conversations around them too.

The Independent UK

‘Humanitarian crisis’: One million young families face fuel poverty in 2023

Exclusive: Almost 200,000 more households with young children will be pushed into financial trouble when bills rise in April, research finds

Daily Record

Nicola Sturgeon claims government doing 'everything' to offer fair pay deal to public sector workers

The First Minister addressed the Poverty Alliance Conference in Glasgow a day after thousands of teachers across the country walked out for first national strike in almost 40 years.

The Guardian - UK

Scottish social cohesion and law and order under threat, says police chief

Head of Police Scotland cites strikes, constitutional uncertainty, crisis poverty and planned cuts to force as factors

The National (Scotland)

Nicola Sturgeon hits out at 'incompetent' UK Government in Poverty Alliance address

NICOLA Sturgeon has hit out at the economic “incompetence” of the UK Government as she spoke of the £1.7 billion impact of inflation on the…

Manchester Evening News

'Give me your money or I'll take you to the moors and you'll never be seen again'

When Gary Karucz was arrested, he asked police: "Are you here because I have been loaning money to the homeless?"

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