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The Latest Breaking News from Poverty

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

Belfast Live

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.

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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

The Independent UK

‘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.

France 24

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.

The Conversation

‘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

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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

The Guardian - UK

£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

Chronicle Live

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

Evening Standard

'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

Liverpool Echo

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

Chronicle 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

Glasgow Live

‘This has saved us’: UK food banks on front line of cost of living crisis face soaring demand

As Britain faces a cost of living crisis, the last of FRANCE 24’s series of special reports focuses on food banks, institutions that are on the front line of the fight against poverty. But the demand for their services is soaring these days and smaller charities, reliant on small donors,…

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Daily Mirror

One MILLION kids growing up in poverty as families fight to buy even the basics

One in four UK children, including 1.3 million primary school children and one million under four, are growing up below the poverty line, a new report has found

Daily Record

DWP urged to give early access to State Pension payments for dying people of working age

Marie Curie research shows most dying people of working age have paid 24 years of National Insurance contributions.

ABC News

Scores of people die as wave of freezing weather sweeps across Afghanistan

Extreme weather compounds a humanitarian crisis in poverty-stricken Afghanistan, leaving scores of people and vital livestock dead.

Reason

No, the World Is Not Heading Toward 'Mass Extinction'

Despite an apocalyptic media narrative, the modern era has brought much longer lives and the greatest decline in poverty ever.

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The Conversation

Solving period poverty is about more than just making products free

Upwards of 2.8 billion people do not have access to safe sanitation. A third of the world’s population doesn’t have a toilet.

Daily Mirror

Mum of 16 opens up school for 200 poor kids with best friend after raising £350k through TikTok

Teacher Dora Moono Nyambe, 30, adopted 13 children and fostered three others after deciding to move to the village of Mapapa in Zambia to help alleviate poverty and open a free school with money she raised through TikTok

Chronicle Live

Local Tory party refuse to back universal free school meal proposal

The North Tyneside Conservatives claim universal school meals do not address the root causes of child poverty, while Labour claims too many people fall through the cracks to access free school meals.

Asharq Al-Awsat

FAO: Rising Prices, Food Insecurity Add to Ranks of Hungry

Growing numbers of people in Asia lack enough to eat as food insecurity rises with higher prices and worsening poverty, according to a report released Tuesday by the Food and Agricultural Organization and other United Nations agencies. Nearly a half-billion people, more than eight in 10 of them in South…

The Independent UK

FAO: Rising prices, food insecurity add to ranks of hungry

A report by the United Nations shows growing numbers of people in Asia lack enough to eat as food insecurity rises with higher prices and worsening poverty

The Independent UK

MP warns of ‘unprecedented’ child poverty in northern England

An all-party report shows the problem, including fuel poverty and food insecurity, is higher in the north than the rest of England.

Newsroom.co.nz

It's not politics, and it's not OK

Māori issues editor Aaron Smale says sexism, racism, fairness and missed opportunities need to be considered when analysing Ardern’s complex legacy.

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