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Exclusive: Biden's World Bank pick sets ambitious course

Ajay Banga: World Bank should focus on both poverty and climate change.

Axios

Start Up Stirling foodbank has now been helping people for ten years

It said demands for services and support from those facing hardship and poverty has never been higher.

Daily Record

One in eight people now 'living in poverty' in NSW

One in eight people in NSW have slipped below the poverty line, with the so-called 'latte line' dividing those who are sitting pretty and others who struggle.

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Thorpe votes with Coalition on Indigenous land council inquiry – as it happened

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The Guardian - AU

How poverty and racism 'weather' the body, accelerating aging and disease

Public health professor Arline Geronimus explains how marginalized people suffer nearly constant stress, which damages their bodies at the cellular level. Her new book is Weathering.

WEKU

'I donated 30 million period products so nobody would suffer period poverty like I did'

For many living on the breadline, periods are an added expense that they cannot afford - but Hey Girls and Kate Smith are tackling period poverty one tampon at a time

Daily Mirror

Four global problems that will be aggravated by the UK's recent cuts to international aid

UK economic forecasts have improved markedly since the September 2022 mini-budget. The economic recession may now be more shallow and public borrowing lower than previously expected.

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Comic Relief launches metaverse fundraiser to fight poverty

Can playing more Roblox make your kids more philanthropic

The Independent UK

One million people are living below the poverty line in NSW, census data has revealed

Exclusive: The figure includes one in seven children, with western Sydney suffering the highest rates of child poverty

The Guardian - AU

Global Population Could Peak Below 9 Billion Within 30 Years

The analysis uses 10 world regions such as Sub-Saharan Africa, China and the United States as the global population could peak

Zenger

New call for WASPI compensation plan for women ‘robbed’ of State Pension payments after retirement age changes

Patricia Gibson MP urged the UK Government to work with the WASPI women once the Ombudsman investigation is completed.

Daily Record

Hunter students illuminate the future for kids living in energy poverty

Students at Hunter Sports High School have helped illuminate the futures of kids living in energy poverty in Papua New Guinea.

Newcastle Herald

Scotland's poverty crisis will make or break Humza Yousaf

Record View says Humza Yousaf must prioritise tackling poverty in Scotland when he steps up as First Minister.

Daily Record

Leprosy, scabies and yaws - Togo's neglected tropical skin diseases need attention

Neglected tropical diseases are a group of 20 diseases found mostly in tropical regions that are strongly associated with poverty. Among them are skin diseases like scabies, leprosy and yaws. They are caused by some bacteria, viruses, mosquitoes or mites and, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), they affect…

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Glasgow Live

Glasgow Red Cross deliver over 1,300 food parcels to vulnerable and isolated

The Red Cross has been working with Glasgow's health and social care partnership to support people in food poverty during winter.

The Guardian - UK

Broke and disabled in Tory Britain: the reality of life on one meal a day

Welfare reforms have left many disabled people effectively destitute. For them, this isn’t a cost-of-living crisis – it’s a cost-of-staying-alive crisis

The National (Scotland)

Humza Yousaf pledges to back wealth tax if made SNP leader

HUMZA Yousaf has said he will consider introducing wealth taxes if he becomes the new leader of the SNP.

The Independent UK

Mississippi tornado recovery tough for low-income residents

Poverty is adding to the challenges of recovering from a massive tornado that pushed through Mississippi

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Daily Record

Humza Yousaf to back wealth tax if he wins contest to become SNP leader and First Minister

In an interview with Daily Record Political Editor Paul Hutcheon, he said his first act as FM would be to host a summit of anti-poverty organisations

Daily Mirror

Bridget Phillipson says her single mum was 'pushed into poverty' over lack of childcare

Labour's Shadow Education Secretary, who grew up in a council house in Washington, Tyne and Wear, said her mum Clare didn't go back to work full time until she started school because no childcare was available.

Asharq Al-Awsat

At Least 29 African Migrants Die when 2 Boats Sink Off Tunisia

At least 29 migrants from sub-Saharan Africa died when their two boats sank off the coast of Tunisia as they tried to cross the Mediterranean to Italy, the Tunisian coast guard said on Sunday. Separately, in the last four days, five migrant boats have sunk off the coast of the…

Wales Online

14 maps you need to see to understand Wales and the challenges we face

Like every country Wales has its challenges. Whether it be poverty, a creaking infrastructure, poor health, low levels of education, decline of public services or the erosion of the Welsh language it is easy to see these issues in isolation. But Wa

The Guardian - AU

Sole parents like me are at the frontline of the cost-of-living crisis. Will Albanese right the wrongs of his predecessors?

Those doing it tough need an adequate safety net. Year after year we hear the same excuses

The Guardian - UK

Daisy May Cooper: ‘When I try to be sexy, I look like a psychopath’

The creator and star of This Country on how growing up in poverty influenced her new role, and why she keeps her Bafta by the door

Dynamite News

Poor children have poorer health, educational outcomes in adolescence

A new investigation conducted by UCL academics indicates that Generation Z youngsters born into the lowest fifth of families in the UK are 12 times more likely to experience a slew of bad health and educational outcomes by the age of 17 than their more affluent classmates. Read further on…

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