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‘Made in Cote d’Ivoire’ chocolatier puts women at centre of his cocoa revolution

Cote d’Ivoire’s premium chocolate maker Axel Emmanuel Gbaou saw a major problem in the country’s cocoa industry – the farmers live in poverty, their wives were not involved and so farmers’ children weren’t going to school. He set about revolutionising the sector.

Radio France Internationale

New billionaire was created every 30 hours during the pandemic

Nearly one million people could be pushed into extreme poverty in 2022, according to Oxfam

The Independent UK

North Belfast poverty: 'Without the community spirit of Ardoyne and the Crumlin Road.. it's scary to think where we'd be'

"You're earning more money selling drugs - why a young person want to go into full time work if they are earning say £800 a week selling drugs? These are issues that need tackled"

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Superdrug cooks up cost of living campaign with Jack Monroe

Research revealed that 80% of customers felt the need for cost of living brands switch

Evening Standard

Superdrug partners with Jack Monroe to fight hygiene poverty

Jack Monroe has partnered with Superdrug to help customers “shop smart” amid the cost of living crisis.

The Independent UK

Jack Monroe backs Superdrug as prices frozen on over 100 products

The retailer has also launched bigger discounts for staff and a 'buy one, bank one' scheme on period products

Manchester Evening News

Waiting for China

Since China began to open up and reform its economy in 1978, growth has averaged almost 10% a year, and more than 800 million people have been lifted out of poverty. There have also been significant improvements in access to health, education and other services, with the mainland now an…

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E.On energy boss says 'prices are too high' as PM comes under growing pressure to help

One of the UK’s biggest energy suppliers has warned that up to 40% of its customers will be in fuel poverty by October unless the Government steps in

Daily Mirror

Boris Johnson to stress work as the fix for cost of living crisis

Ministers remain unable to decide on ways to help as energy firm boss warns soon 40% could be in fuel poverty

The Guardian - UK

Boss of UK’s largest energy firm warns 40% of its customers could be in fuel poverty

The boss of the UK’s largest energy supplier has warned that 40 per cent of its customers could end up in fuel poverty amid surging costs.

Evening Standard

Number of people in fuel poverty will double in October as cost of living crisis hits, energy boss warns

Michael Lewis, the chief executive of E.ON, said that the company was already seeing customers go into arrears and that when prices increase in a few months time they will not be able to manage.

Daily Record

Energy boss warns 4 in 10 households facing fuel poverty

’Some people are at the edge and that will get worse,’ E.ON chief executive says – telling government to act now

The Independent UK

Food bank crisis as demand soars and donations plunge

THE empty shelves tell their own bleak story. The few tins still standing only serve to highlight the desperate situation facing the many food banks…

The National (Scotland)

Mum's fight for survival as cost of living crisis leaves family unable to make ends meet

Gemma Carlsson earns £456 a month and gets £665 in Universal Credit, but the cost of living crisis means her £400 a month food bill and her £260 energy bills will go up

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'Out-of-touch Tories think they have discovered the solution to poverty'

Mark Steel says Conservative Party MPs would tell someone who finds it hard to live on Universal Credit to stop working in a hospital and run Formula 1 racing instead

Manchester Evening News

More children to be pushed into poverty in city-region without government intervention, study says

The research comes as the cost of living crisis continues to hit families across the region.

The Independent UK

Iain Duncan Smith calls for benefits to be boosted in line with inflation

The former Tory leader said a raise in benefits would provide a ‘shield’ against the sting of mounting living costs

Evening Standard

Tory peer who helped set up Universal Credit calls for benefits boost

Baroness Philippa Stroud has also called for the £20 uplift to be restored having previously warned that its removal would plunge thousands into poverty

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‘We’ve earned better than this’: voters give their verdict on the Australian election

Poverty, healthcare and regional Australia are on the minds of three voters as the country heads to the polls

The Conversation

Food banks: an MP claimed there's no massive use for them in the UK – the evidence shows why he's wrong

There is no “massive use for food banks” in the UK, according to Lee Anderson, the Conservative MP for Ashfield. However, figures and evidence from food bank organisations, charities and researchers show that this is simply not the case.

The Conversation

1 in 6 US kids are in families below the poverty line

In the United States, children are more likely to experience poverty than people over 18.

ABC News

Rheumatic heart disease funding needed to help Indigenous communities

A dramatic increase in funding will be needed to eradicate a disease which stems from poverty in Australia's Indigenous community, according to a leading paedeatrician.

The Times of India

Go for universal basic income, says EAC-commissioned study

NEW DELHI: The government must allocate a bigger percentage of expenditure towards social services and the social sector to make the most-vulnerable population resilient to sudden shocks and stop their descent into poverty, a study commissioned by the economic advisory council (EAC) to the PM has said.

Al Jazeera

Nobel winner Jose Ramos-Horta sworn in as East Timor president

New president pledges to reduce poverty, improve health services for mothers, children, and restore political stability.

Irish Mirror

Almost one in five people in Ireland living in fuel poverty

The soaring cost of living, and in particular the spiralling energy costs for homes, is now seeing 17.5% of people spending more than 10% of their income on energy bills

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