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DWP Universal Credit £25 boost for millions every week under fresh plans

'Devastating cuts' to Universal Credit have been ordered to be reversed, with the DWP also urged to put a new payment uplift in place which would apply to legacy benefits

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Proposal put to DWP for Universal Credit benefits £25 a week rise

Calls made to bring back the uplift after report reveals more than 100,000 people pushed into poverty by additional help axe

Wales Online

DWP urged to adopt £25 a week boost for Universal Credit families

Government urged to 'reverse damaging decision' to stop top up payments - as MP says weekly uplift would raise thousands out of poverty

Manchester Evening News

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Nigeria’s growing population can be an advantage, with better data and a policy focus on young people

Nigeria’s population is currently estimated at over 222 million, with the median age - the age at the midpoint of the population - 18.1 years. This poses challenges and opportunities. Akanni Akinyemi explains in this interview with The Conversation Africa that better data and greater focus on its huge young…

The Conversation

Red Hot Chili Peppers and Ms. Lauryn Hill will headline Global Citizen Festival to fight inequality

Red Hot Chili Peppers, Ms. Lauryn Hill and Megan Thee Stallion will headline this year’s Global Citizen Festival, as the anti-poverty nonprofit looks to focus attention on increasing inequality for girls and young women around the world

The Independent UK

Decision to scrap Glasgow night bus service prompts outcry

Poverty campaigners, women’s safety advocates and night time industries among those condemning First Bus plans

The Guardian - UK

Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor's staff prodded colleges and libraries to buy her books

For colleges and libraries seeking a big name for a guest lecturer, few come bigger than Sonia Sotomayor, the Supreme Court justice who rose from poverty in the Bronx to the nation’s highest court

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415 million Indians came out of multidimensional poverty in 15 years, says UNDP study

A total of 415 million people moved out of poverty in India within just 15 years from 2005/2006 to 2019/2021, the United Nations (UN) said on July 11, highlighting the remarkable achievement by the world’s most populous nation.

The Hindu

AP Month in Pictures: Middle East

Violence continued in the occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip between Israeli security forces and Palestinian militants. The gallery also shows how people coped with the heat wave around the region and during the annual Hajj pilgrimage in Mecca, Saudi Arabia; poverty in Pakistan; and the Pride party in…

The Independent UK

Labour urged again to vow to scrap Tories’ two-child benefit limit

Exclusive: Data shows policy, deepening poverty among low-income families, affects about 1.5 million children

The Guardian - UK

UN warns its development goals for 2030 are in trouble and 575 million people will remain very poor

In a grim report, the U.N. is warning that at the current rate of global progress 575 million people will still be living in extreme poverty and 84 million children won’t be going to school in 2030 – and it will take 286 years to reach equality between men and…

The Independent UK

Tories' benefit cuts 'to push 100,000 into absolute poverty', report suggests

MORE than 100,000 people will be forced into absolute poverty by the UK Government’s £20 cut to Universal Credit in 2022-2023, according to…

The National (Scotland)

Chicago’s history has a blueprint for handling city’s migrant challenge

It would behoove the city to look to its past and resurrect Hull House and the spirit of Jane Addams to meet this newest migrant crisis, and the needs of those in poverty who are already in our neighborhoods.

Chicago Sun-Times

Dorset firm REIDsteel is one of first members to join Jobs Foundation

The Christchurch-based structural engineering business has thrown itself behind the new initiative, which aims to do more in local communities

Birmingham Post

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Salon

What the South Bronx taught me

I grew up amid decrepit buildings, poor health and worsening crime. There was hope in solidarity — and still is

The Guardian - UK

End to universal credit’s Covid top-up is fuelling rise in poverty, warns IFS

Pandemic’s £20 benefit uplift led to sharp fall in households living in poverty but replacement is far less effective

The Guardian - UK

‘It’s like a hostile environment’: London’s creative core at risk as artists in poverty quit

UK capital as ‘huge generator of wealth’ under threat as a third of visual artists struggle to pay for studios

Fortune

Half of boomers and late Gen Xers who took early retirement during the first Covid wave have fallen into poverty

Researchers suggest around 390,000 of the 50 to 70-year-olds who retired in 2020-21 were forced to leave the workforce, as opposed to “retiring in comfort”.

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The Guardian - UK

Older UK workers who retired early in pandemic were ‘forced into poverty’

Thinktank challenges view that those taking early retirement under Covid were relatively well off

Daily Mirror

Labour's classroom revolution to smash 'class ceiling' holding state schoolchildren back

In a highly personal speech, Mr Starmer told how seeing his toolmaker dad feel 'looked down upon' and 'disrespected' because of his job had pushed him to end the academic/vocational divide

The National (Scotland)

Keir Starmer U-turn on two-child benefit cap exposed in unearthed Twitter thread

KEIR Starmer said he wanted to get rid of the two-child benefit cap three years ago.

The Guardian - UK

Keir Starmer says he is as ‘laser-focused on poverty’ as Tony Blair was in 1997

Labour leader’s comments come as he sets out party’s plans to improve education and opportunity

The Guardian - UK

Caste out: how Kerala’s food parcel scheme tackles poverty and prejudice

In India’s most progressive state, food for hospital patients and visitors feeds the hungry and helps create an ‘ethos of equality’

The Hindu

Data | Why Centre’s denial of rice through OMSS hits Karnataka the most

The Congress-led Karnataka government has been facing challenges in fulfilling its promise of providing five kg of rice to Below Poverty Line (BPL) and Antyodaya card holders. The Centre’s discontinuation of the Open Market Sale Scheme (OMSS), which provided surplus grains, has put Karnataka in a difficult position. This move…

The Hindu

L-G intends to import poverty into Kashmir says Mehbooba

Former J&K Chief Minister and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) president Mehbooba Mufti on July 5 accused the Lieutenant Governor’s administration of “playing a dangerous game”.

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