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Raising benefits in line with wages ‘would push 200,000 children into poverty’

Campaigners have warned ministers ‘U-turning on children’s futures cannot be an option’.

The Independent UK

DWP £900 Winter Fuel Payment - the strict criteria on who is eligible

Millions are expected to fall into fuel poverty

Nottingham Post

World Bank has downgraded Indian economy but PM is still resorting to empty slogans, alleges Congress

Ms. Shrinate said rupee has hit a historic low.

The Hindu

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Trains and buses should be further subsidised, says Senedd committee

Rail services in Wales already receive massive subsidies but it should go further say Members of the Senedd

Wales Online

The Coral review – urgent parable of poverty and the one percent

Georg Kaiser’s century-old call for a societal reset may not always hit the mark, but it is given an invigorated panache by Collide theatre company

The Guardian - UK

The Welsh, Scottish and Northern Irish governments issue three demands to UK Government

The devolved nations have written an urgent letter to Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng

Wales Online

Women ‘more anxious about bills and depressed about cost of living’

The crisis is having a disproportionate impact on women’s mental health, the British Psychological Society warned.

The Independent UK

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Editorial: Dallas’ bad plan on guaranteed income

A bad idea by any other name is still a bad idea.

Tribune News Service

Lebanon Announces First Cholera Case in Almost 30 Years

Lebanon’s health ministry on Thursday announced the crisis-hit country’s first case of cholera in decades. The announcement comes as neighboring war-torn Syria is struggling to contain a cholera outbreak that has spread across the country over the past month. Lebanon began a downward spiral in late 2019 that has plunged…

Asharq Al-Awsat

McConnell "never needed free lunch"

Why have an expanded Child Tax Credit and universal free school meals both been stymied by Republicans in Congress?

Salon

The Guardian view on race and poverty: a worsening divide

Editorial: The disproportionate impact of cost of living rises on ethnic minorities, especially women, must be addressed

The Guardian - UK

Fixing UK’s ‘crazy’ food waste problem vital as poverty rises, says charity leader

Felix Project’s founder calls on industry to help rescue vast sums of edible food still going to landfill

The Independent UK

More families set to benefit from funded school-age childcare

MORE families are set to benefit from funded school-age childcare as part of a national mission to tackle child poverty.

The National (Scotland)

Judge Fines Lebanese Bank Heist Figure, Issues Travel Ban

A Lebanese judge on Thursday fined and issued a six-month travel ban to a woman who stormed her bank with a fake pistol and took her trapped savings to cover her sister's cancer treatment. Lebanon’s cash-strapped banks have imposed strict limits on withdrawals of foreign currency since 2019, tying up…

Asharq Al-Awsat

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The Guardian - UK

Black and minority ethnic people in UK twice as likely to be in ‘deep poverty’

Analysis finds minority ethnic people make up 15% of population but account for 26% of those in deep poverty

Liverpool Echo

LEAP energy could lower your bills if you're on Universal Credit or a low income

More than one in ten households are in fuel poverty and it's only predicted to get worse

Al Jazeera

Goal of ending extreme poverty by 2030 out of reach, report says

Effects of COVID and Ukraine war make it unlikely for eradicating extreme poverty by decade’s end, World Bank says.

Chronicle Live

North East groups warn PM against "cruel and avoidable" benefit changes

A wide range of business, education and charity groups have written to the Prime Minister and Chancellor to warn against real-term cuts to benefits

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Wales Online

The argument that totally takes down Liz Truss' plan to get people off benefits

"If you've broken 12 bones, you're not going to suddenly be more mobile and productive when someone threatens to break a 13th"

Reuters

World Bank says goal of ending extreme poverty by 2030 unlikely to be met

France 24

Fleeing Lebanon to escape poverty: At least 100 die in migrant shipwreck

Three years into Lebanon's devastating financial collapse, some 80 percent of the population is now living below the poverty line. The situation is driving more and more people to risk their lives on the open seas. Last month, at least a hundred people drowned when a migrant boat capsized off…

The Independent UK

Millions of Britons ‘unable to afford basics like toothpaste and period products’

Disabled people are disproportionately hit by hygiene poverty, charity says

The Guardian - UK

Top 10 books about Nigeria

Fiction, poetry and history from an extraordinary country of great wealth and deep poverty, of huge promise and extremes of despair

Wales Online

Welsh MP says the state can't 'catch' everyone and people should help each other

Robin Millar said the state should be the 'last resort' for helping people deal with the cost of living crisis

The Independent UK

Amnesty: Creditors should provide debt relief to Sri Lanka

Amnesty International has appealed to international creditors to provide debt relief to Sri Lanka to alleviate suffering as its people endure hunger, worsening poverty and shortages of basic supplies

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