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Big Issue founder pleads 'save family from homeless fate I suffered as child'

The anti-poverty campaigner's family were turfed out of their home at Christmas in the 1950s - now, seven decades on, history looks set to repeat itself

Daily Mirror

Christmas toy bandit strikes Atlanta nonprofit

ATLANTA — For nearly a century, the Empty Stocking Fund has battled poverty in Georgia through its Christmas gift program for children in need. But in recent years, the nonprofit has had to wage another kind of fight.

Tribune News Service

In Peru, Kichwa tribe wants compensation for carbon credits

Residents in Kichwa Indigenous villages in Peru say they fell into poverty after the government turned their ancestral forest into a national park, severely restricted hunting and allowed the sale of forest carbon credits to oil companies

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Miriam’s Dickensian Christmas review – Margolyes is as punchy and rich as a boozy pudding

The lifelong Dickens fan is an absolute joy to watch when she’s reading from his work – and at one point you’ll wish she was our queen. But this show needed more fury about poverty

The Guardian - UK

Single mum surviving on kid's leftovers and cups of tea says she can't afford Christmas

The Only Way is Essex star and former TV personality Lydia Bright, who campaigns for the charity, said child poverty in the UK was heartbreaking.

Daily Record

Nigeria's economy in 2022: winners and losers

At the start of 2022, Nigerians hoped that, with less than two years to the end of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration, the government would ramp up its efforts to reduce poverty and unemployment.

The Conversation

GOP blocks $12B to fight child poverty

GOPer says "the country frankly doesn't have the time or the money" to help impoverished kids

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Who cares? In Reefton they do

A combination of unfulfilled dreams, isolation and food poverty is keeping one small town’s volunteer sector busy and eager for donations - just no chickpeas, thanks.

Newsroom.co.nz

Thousands of North East children in poverty go without free school meals

The North East Child Poverty Commission wants free school meals introduced for all primary pupils

Chronicle Live

Fuel poverty fund extended with money redirected from referendum pot

THOUSANDS of vulnerable households will be supported by the continuation of the Scottish Government’s uprated £20 million Fuel Insecurity Fund.

The National (Scotland)

Mums on the edge, hunger and rats - the families trying to hold it together and the schools trying to help

Manchester Communication Academy not only provides food and clothes in the fight against poverty, but is taking on slum landlords too

Manchester Evening News

Hopes of sailing free of war and poverty dashed for Gazans as bodies return in coffins

Months ago, Talal Al-Shaer bid his two sons safe travels as they set off from the Gaza Strip on a tortuous route that they prayed would bring them new lives in Europe, free of poverty and war.

Reuters

Big Issue founder says Government needs to ‘get off its rear’

Lord Bird said people face slipping into poverty and homelessness.

The Independent UK

‘Life is ebbing away’: Egyptians face peril at sea in dangerous new exodus to Europe

Poverty puts thousands into the grip of people smugglers plying a deadly trade in the Mediterranean

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Warning poverty is putting 1.3 million people with health problems at greater risk from cold

Proportion of people at risk ‘particularly high’ in coastal areas and northwest England

Belfast Live

Snow Patrol: Watch as Gary Lightbody gives powerful speech at Northern Ireland human rights talk

'The heating crisis, the food poverty crisis, or myriad other crises - during all that mayhem is not the time to shut down'

The Guardian - UK

More than 1m poor people with health problems in England at risk from cold

Calls for extra winter help as ONS estimates 1.3m people with heart and breathing conditions living in poverty

The Independent UK

As sports betting grows in Africa, many see a real scourge

In at least five African countries, gamblers and experts said that many see the growing sports betting industry as a source of regular income, and a hope out of leaving poverty

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Civil rights group sues Dallas for ban that ‘criminalizes poverty’

A coalition made up of legal advocates and a law firm is suing Dallas over a new rule that subjects people to fines of up to $500 for standing on road medians, arguing it is unconstitutional and will disproportionately impact homeless residents.

The Independent UK

Benefits uplift in Scotland welcomed but campaigners say more can be done

Deputy First Minister John Swinney set out the 2023/24 budget in Holyrood.

The Independent UK

£20m indyref2 budget reallocated to fuel poverty fund after Supreme Court ruling

John Swinney announced the move in his budget statement to Holyrood on Thursday.

Glasgow Live

Homeless charity Social Bite to open new Glasgow Buchanan Galleries cafe in 2023

The cafe is due to open in 2023, but on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day the new premises will open its doors to people experiencing homelessness and poverty in to enjoy a hot Christmas dinner.

The National (Scotland)

FMQs: Nicola Sturgeon scolds Tories over reaction to poverty question

NICOLA Sturgeon noted how “it’s always really striking how uncomfortable the Scottish Conservatives get when poverty gets mentioned” during…

The Guardian - UK

The spirit of Christmas won’t solve Britain’s ingrained food poverty

Letter: Seasonal food bank appeals and millions of emergency food parcels cannot tackle escalating food insecurity – we need living incomes now, writes Sabine Goodwin

The Guardian - AU

The pandemic showed us that poverty is a policy choice – we must do better

The poorest 20% of households are aided significantly by services like education and health. But the stage-three tax cuts threatens their funding

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