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Zayn Malik calls on Rishi Sunak to expand free school meals

Feed the Future: The former One Direction member relied on free school meals as a child

The Independent UK

Manchester’s best South East Asian restaurants assemble to help those in food poverty

Tattu, Hello Oriental and Neon Tiger are all teaming up for Eat Well MCR

Manchester Evening News

Rishi Sunak urged to examine universal basic income to protect Brits from future crises

Almost 300 individuals including MPs, councillors, academics and mayors from across the country have signed an open letter to the new Prime Minister telling him basic income 'could be our generation's NHS'

Daily Mirror

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This is no country for young people. The fate of so many of our children is sealed at birth

Shocking new figures reveal the ugly truth that the circumstances of early years, from a baby’s weight to family ties, matter too much

The Guardian - UK

Family warn kids 'might not even get a Christmas card' this year

The Wilcox family have bought more than 1000 presents for children in poverty in the last nine years

Liverpool Echo

‘We all want to leave’: poverty, not crime, fuels the urge to flee Albania

In the north, there’s no work. In the capital, corruption blocks young people’s progress. It’s no surprise there’s an exodus

The Guardian - UK

Most voters back our campaign to end period poverty in UK - here are our demands

Scotland became the first country in the world to eradicate period poverty when Labour MSP Monica Lennon’s parliamentary Bill made it law in 2021

Daily Mirror

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A panhandling study's unsettling finding

A study found that panhandlers received more generous donations if they were dressed in a suit

Salon

UK mortgage rate rises ‘will put extra 400,000 people in poverty’

Analysis from Joseph Rowntree Foundation also finds rents for new lets could rise sharply

The Guardian - UK

Squeeze will donate all proceeds from new EP and single to food banks

Band’s track Food for Thought highlights poverty crisis with concertgoers asked to bring items for Trussell Trust

The Guardian - UK

‘School milk derision made me determined to succeed’

Growing up in the North, Louise Powell lived below the poverty line. Now a writer, director and filmmaker, with her scripts broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Extra and performed at theatres, the 30-year-old said free school meals allowed her to “break the cycle”. In our final #FreeMadeMe interview — in…

Evening Standard

Glasgow home owners in most deprived areas set to get free insulation work

The improvements aim to make homes warmer and reduce fuel poverty with the grants ranging from between £8,500 to £13,000 per property.

Glasgow Live

'The Bank of England's 'incompetent' interest rates hike is dangerous for Britain'

Professor Richard Murphy, political economist and chartered accountant, says increasing interest costs will force hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of UK households into poverty

Daily Mirror

UN envoy warns Rishi Sunak against ‘troubling’ austerity cuts OLD

‘Worst time’ for UK to impose spending cuts, says UN rapporteur

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Charities write to PM demanding more help for households in fuel poverty

A poll for the End Fuel Poverty Coalition suggests 76% think the Government is not doing enough to support vulnerable households this winter.

The Guardian - UK

UN poverty envoy tells Britain this is ‘worst time’ for more austerity

Exclusive: Olivier de Schutter says cuts could violate human rights laws, calling instead for higher taxes on rich

The Conversation

Ebola in Uganda: lessons from COVID show that heavy-handed lockdowns may be a bad idea

Since the first case of the current Ebola outbreak in Uganda was confirmed in mid-September, the number of cases has topped 127 across seven districts, including 17 in the capital city Kampala.

The National (Scotland)

Scotland's rural communities 'falling between cracks' of UK energy support scheme

SCOTLAND’S rural communities risk entering severe fuel poverty after “falling between the cracks” of the UK Government’s energy support…

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The Guardian - US

These midterm elections have enormous stakes for poor and low-income Americans

Our country faces a material and moral crisis – and Republicans are offering only resentment and false solutions

Liverpool Echo

New Liverpool music festival aims to 'end food poverty in our city'

Food Aid Liverpool will feature a number of the UK’s best tribute artists

The Independent UK

Schoolchildren and parents shoplifting to feed themselves and their families

Special Investigation: Headteachers and youth workers highlight an increasing hunger crisis among families living in poverty but who are not eligible for free school meals

The Independent UK

Unions call for general election now as number of key workers’ children growing up in poverty revealed

TUC research reveals ‘rampant’ need among frontline staff as 28 per cent of children with care worker parents grow up in poverty

The Guardian - UK

One in four children of UK care workers living in poverty, TUC finds

Figure represents 220,000 children, with union adding many families of nurses and public transport workers also in crisis

The Conversation

Low- and middle-income countries struggle to provide health care to some, while others get too much medicine

Access to quality health care is a fundamental human right. Yet more than half the world’s population can’t obtain even the most essential health care. Out-of-pocket costs drive hundreds of millions into extreme poverty

Daily Record

Authorities from Perth and Kinross meet as a taskforce in preparation for cost-of-living poverty future faced by the Big County residents

On Friday October 28 meetings were held to galvanise Perthshire's response to the financial squeeze that is looming over many with a closed meeting followed by a gathering of businesses and organisations to chew over needs and options .

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