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‘It’s going to be devastating’: End of emergency food benefits expected to impact millions of Californians

SAN JOSE, Calif. — A gallon of milk, a dozen eggs, a loaf of bread, a pound of chicken: That may be all the groceries some Californians can buy each month with their CalFresh benefits now that emergency federal pandemic funds that boosted food benefits have ended.

Tribune News Service

Our city has a drinking problem but there are signs of recovery

With Liverpool ranked third in the country for alcoholism, we look at the different factors behind the problem in the city and the important work being done to address it

Liverpool Echo

Energy crisis: April's £500 bills hike set to be scrapped

There are rumours that next month's bills are being prepared as if the £2,500 cap will stay have sparked poverty campaigners' hopes

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New Universal Credit rule change could see people forced to attend jobcentre 10 times over two-week period

The DWP staff union warns the change will increase the risk of poverty for working claimants.

Daily Record

DWP benefit cap 'fallacy' impacting 350 Bristol families, new figures reveal

"It doesn’t incentivise work, it leaves children hungry"

Bristol Post

Campaigner Harry Leslie Smith was bridge to past - with warnings of ravaged NHS future

Harry Leslie Smith would have turned 100 this week and, as Ros Wynne-Jones writes, all of us who loved him miss his wisdom as Britain confronts one of the most challenging periods since his own childhood

Daily Mirror

Friday essay: how policies favouring rich, older people make young Australians Generation F-d

Working to buy your own home is a rite of passage in Australia, firmly rooted in a time when government delivered plentiful, affordable housing. Following the senseless poverty and destitution inflicted by price-gouging landlords during the Depression, we created a better, more equitable housing system after World War II.

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Thinking of having a baby as the planet collapses? First, ask yourself 5 big ethical questions

Do you want to have a baby? But, on a planet rocked by the climate crisis, ecosystem collapse, famine and poverty, is having one just adding to the problem – and therefore unethical?

The Conversation

The Guardian view on the Home Office: residency rules are prolonging misery

Editorial: The 10-year route to settlement forces people into poverty and separates them from society. It shouldn’t be this way

The Guardian - UK

I asked for a 'white envelope' at Tesco - but left feeling upset and embarrassed

There has been some confusion around the initiative

Leeds Live

Lee Anderson claims family were in McDonald's 'two or three times a week' while using food bank

Lee Anderson secured a Westminster Hall debate on the subject of food poverty, where he also said it was a 'myth' that everyone on Universal Credit was in poverty.

Nottingham Post

Francis Wilkinson: Poor voters are losing out in the culture wars

The federal government says that 38 million Americans live in poverty. In addition, tens of millions live above the poverty line but in more or less permanent financial insecurity. Who represents the interests of all these people?

Tribune News Service

New figures expose 'fallacy' of benefit cap 'work incentive', child poverty group says

Ministers are now facing calls to abandon the cap - around £1,666 per month for a couple per month outside London - which one expert said makes 'no logical sense'

Daily Mirror

Lee Anderson stokes fury with claim families 'using food banks then going to McDonald's'

The divisive Tory deputy chairman claimed that receiving Universal Credit isn't an indication that families are in poverty - and said he'd contacted a local school to find out why they'd been offering free breakfasts

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Asharq Al-Awsat

Lebanese Supermarkets Mark Prices in Dollars as Local Currency Tanks

Supermarkets in Lebanon started pricing items in US dollars on Wednesday instead of the nose-diving local currency, after a government announcement allowing the practice in a country heavily reliant on imports. Since late 2019, Lebanon has been facing a dramatic economic crisis that has seen poverty rates climb to reach…

Evening Standard

Number of children in food poverty nearly doubles in a year to 4 million

Parents are worried about the physical and mental impact on children

The Independent UK

Feed the future: Public agree that government should extend free school meals, exclusive poll reveals

First national poll since our campaign shows strong rise in public support for extension of free school meals as child food poverty doubles in a year

The Guardian - UK

Number of UK children in food poverty nearly doubles in a year to 4m

Support grows for expansion of free school meals to struggling families in face of rising hunger

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Scotland's rural communities face energy bills double the UK average

SCOTLAND’S remote and rural communities are facing annual energy bills of more than double the UK average, with the cost of living crisis having a…

The Independent UK

Charities worried about their ability to survive, survey suggests

Organisations working for the prevention or relief of poverty were ‘particularly likely’ to report an increase in demand for services, the CAF said.

The Guardian - UK

Pressure rises on Hunt as 2m more households fall into fuel poverty

Chancellor urged to ditch plans to cut support for energy bills when he delivers his budget for 2023

Wales Online

Tesco says customers can ask for a 'white envelope' to get free sanitary products

The scheme aims to help tackle period poverty and support those who are affected by it and unable to afford sanitary items

The National (Scotland)

Scots £25 benefit 'most ambitious child poverty reduction measure in UK'

A Scottish Government benefit has been hailed the “most ambitious child poverty reduction measure in the UK”.

Daily Mirror

Tesco shoppers praise 'white envelope' scheme that helps struggling customers

Rumours have circulated online about Tesco's "white envelope" scheme which aims to help tackle period poverty and support those who are affected by it

Chicago Tribune

Commentary: Martin Luther King Jr.’s writings should spur a national discussion on militarism

As another observance of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday passed and we once again celebrate Black History Month, I’m still haunted by Jonathan Eig’s recent op-ed, “We have lost sight of MLK’s radical vision.” He argues that we have romanticized King’s message and “lost sight of his radical…

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