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Two million children in poverty due to parents facing work barriers, charity warns

Researchers found work is often not a route out of hardship for families where both parents or a single parent is already working full-time, have long-term sickness or disability, or caring responsibilities

Daily Mirror

Increase aid for elderly and disabled Illinoisans

There is a proposal before the Pritzker administration to provide an increase in the Aid to the Aged, Blind and Disabled program that will allow Illinoisans a combined income equal to at least the poverty level.

Chicago Sun-Times

Christian Atsu: Who is the charity-focused footballer found in the rubble after Turkey’s earthquake?

The former Chelsea and Newcastle star overcame poverty to reach the Premier League, before giving back by helping build schools with his charity work in Ghana

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‘Alcohol laws can’t solve this’: NT Indigenous groups welcome new funding but urge longer-term solutions

The funding measures, along with the reintroduction of alcohol bans, were called a ‘circuit breaker’ by federal NT senator, Marlarndirri McCarthy

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Al-Rahi Accuses Complacent MPs of ‘Great Treason’ for Failing to Elect President

Lebanon’s Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi launched on Sunday a scathing attack against “complacent” MPs who have failed to elect a president since Michel Aoun’s term ended in November. During his Sunday sermon, he said the lawmakers’ blind following of their political leaders was tantamount to “great treason.” The Lebanese people…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Half of UK's vulnerable children live in poverty with 27,000 missing out on essentials

Children’s charity Buttle UK spoke to 1,000 health and care workers who look after 60,000 youngsters. Charity chief Joseph Howes says the situation for at-risk children is getting 'progressively worse'

Daily Mirror

After DRC, Pope Francis takes peace mission to South Sudan

Pope Francis on Friday arrived in South Sudan – a country hit by civil war and extreme poverty – for a three-day visit to spread the message of peace and reconciliation.

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Pope implores South Sudan's leaders to end bloodshed, recriminations

Pope Francis began a visit to South Sudan on Friday with an impassioned plea to its fractious leaders to turn their backs on the violence, ethnic hatred and corruption that have stopped the world's youngest country from achieving peace and prosperity.

Reuters

Homage to nature

A mechanical watch is not just a timepiece, but a reminder of the unfinished mission of Seub Nakhasathien, who laid down his life for conservation in 1990. At the helm of Huai Kha Khaeng Wildlife Sanctuary in Uthai Thani, he suffered numerous setbacks from deforestation and poaching to poverty. And…

Bangkok Post

MRI scans reveal impact of racism and poverty on Black children’s brains

“We don’t think white people have just categorically different brains than Black people. We really think it’s due to the different experiences these groups have,” the study’s lead researcher said.

The Independent UK

Shell profits soar to £32billion as millions struggling to pay their energy bills

The latest figures follow MPs hearing that around 12 million households are now spending more than 10% of their income on energy bills - the previous definition of fuel poverty

Daily Mirror

Direct support to small scale farmers reduces poverty - what Zambia is doing right

Over half of Zambia’s population lived below the national poverty line in 2015. In rural areas, where 89% of households are engaged in agriculture, the poverty rate was even higher, at 77% of the population.

The Conversation

Warning food inflation not yet peaked as shop prices reach record high

‘Simply no way’ for those on the breadline to keep up with rocketing costs, poverty campaigners warn

The Independent UK

Ards and North Down Council agrees £50,000 local hardship fund

Neighbouring Belfast Council agreed to a controversial £1million fuel poverty fund

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Pressure builds to ditch tax cuts in next budget

A leading welfare group says increasing government support payments would cost less than planned tax cuts for the wealthy and lift millions out of poverty.

The Independent UK

Why workers at growing number of nonprofits are unionizing

Over his six years at the Southern Poverty Law Center, Esteban Gil watched colleague after colleague leave

France 24

‘Moment of joy’ as Pope Francis arrives in war-torn DR Congo

Pope Francis landed in Democratic Republic of Congo on Tuesday for a visit that will highlight the human cost of decades of conflict in the vast central African country, which is rich in minerals but where millions are displaced and live in poverty.

The Conversation

Inequality in access to basic services is a major problem in sub-Saharan Africa - but progress is being made

Economic activity and development are unevenly distributed across regions of the world and within any country. In other words, where someone lives can determine their economic and social well-being.

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The Guardian - UK

‘We’ll fight until the end’: a journey through the centre of Peru’s uprising

Inequality, poverty and discrimination lie behind explosion of rural anger against rich Lima

The Guardian - UK

Focusing on diversity means we miss the big picture. It’s class that shapes our lives

In shifting our gaze from equality, we lose sight of the most marginalised

Chronicle Live

£4.2bn devolution deal will give North East mayor 'more power' to fight child poverty crisis

The North East's child poverty rates are the highest in England and are the worst they have been for more than two decades, a harrowing report confirmed this week

Evening Standard

Tip for Trussell: New restaurant scheme launches to raise money for food banks

The new scheme is hoping to support the 14 million people in the UK presently living in food poverty

Liverpool Echo

'Skint' and worn out carers plead for end to ‘poverty pay’ as NHS crisis deepens

Social care is having a profound impact on the NHS crisis, but the sector cannot recruit and retain enough workers due to poor pay and long hours

Chronicle Live

Gateshead councillors pledge to tackle gender inequality as report highlights poverty and violence rates

A report into gender inequalities has unified both Labour and Liberal Democrats in Gateshead to tackle growing concerns

Glasgow Live

Glasgow has over 2000 more children living in poverty since the Covid-19 pandemic

Poverty levels in the city have deepened over the last two years, with those in poverty worse off than they were pre-pandemic

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