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Investments of 125 billionaires have the same carbon footprint as France, study finds

Researchers at Oxfam, a nonprofit devoted to combating poverty, examined billionaires who collectively own $2.4 trillion in company equity, with investments across 183 companies.

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Tyneside social enterprise to tackle child poverty in employer support programme

Society Matters cic is leading workshops, strategy sessions and employee surveys

Birmingham Post

Tom Kerridge: ‘MPs get £17m for their food — how can there be nothing for 800,000 children?’

The acclaimed chef talks to David Ellis about the effect of food poverty on schoolchildren, and why the Feed the Future drive matters

Evening Standard

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Zayn Malik urges Rishi Sunak to give free school meals to all children in poverty

Bradford-born singer who relied on free school lunches urges PM to extend provision to all families on universal credit

The Guardian - UK

Zayn Malik demands free school meals for 800,000 kids in powerful letter to Rishi Sunak

The singer, who relied on free dinners growing up in Bradford, West Yorkshire, issued a plea to the Prime Minister to widen free school meals eligibility in next week's Autumn Statement

Daily Mirror

Zayn Malik calls on Rishi Sunak to expand free school meals

Feed the Future: The former One Direction member relied on free school meals as a child

The Independent UK

Manchester’s best South East Asian restaurants assemble to help those in food poverty

Tattu, Hello Oriental and Neon Tiger are all teaming up for Eat Well MCR

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Rishi Sunak urged to examine universal basic income to protect Brits from future crises

Almost 300 individuals including MPs, councillors, academics and mayors from across the country have signed an open letter to the new Prime Minister telling him basic income 'could be our generation's NHS'

Daily Mirror

This is no country for young people. The fate of so many of our children is sealed at birth

Shocking new figures reveal the ugly truth that the circumstances of early years, from a baby’s weight to family ties, matter too much

The Guardian - UK

Family warn kids 'might not even get a Christmas card' this year

The Wilcox family have bought more than 1000 presents for children in poverty in the last nine years

Liverpool Echo

‘We all want to leave’: poverty, not crime, fuels the urge to flee Albania

In the north, there’s no work. In the capital, corruption blocks young people’s progress. It’s no surprise there’s an exodus

The Guardian - UK

Most voters back our campaign to end period poverty in UK - here are our demands

Scotland became the first country in the world to eradicate period poverty when Labour MSP Monica Lennon’s parliamentary Bill made it law in 2021

Daily Mirror

A panhandling study's unsettling finding

A study found that panhandlers received more generous donations if they were dressed in a suit

Salon

UK mortgage rate rises ‘will put extra 400,000 people in poverty’

Analysis from Joseph Rowntree Foundation also finds rents for new lets could rise sharply

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Squeeze will donate all proceeds from new EP and single to food banks

Band’s track Food for Thought highlights poverty crisis with concertgoers asked to bring items for Trussell Trust

Evening Standard

‘School milk derision made me determined to succeed’

Growing up in the North, Louise Powell lived below the poverty line. Now a writer, director and filmmaker, with her scripts broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Extra and performed at theatres, the 30-year-old said free school meals allowed her to “break the cycle”. In our final #FreeMadeMe interview — in…

Glasgow Live

Glasgow home owners in most deprived areas set to get free insulation work

The improvements aim to make homes warmer and reduce fuel poverty with the grants ranging from between £8,500 to £13,000 per property.

Daily Mirror

'The Bank of England's 'incompetent' interest rates hike is dangerous for Britain'

Professor Richard Murphy, political economist and chartered accountant, says increasing interest costs will force hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of UK households into poverty

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The Independent UK

UN envoy warns Rishi Sunak against ‘troubling’ austerity cuts OLD

‘Worst time’ for UK to impose spending cuts, says UN rapporteur

The Independent UK

Charities write to PM demanding more help for households in fuel poverty

A poll for the End Fuel Poverty Coalition suggests 76% think the Government is not doing enough to support vulnerable households this winter.

The Guardian - UK

UN poverty envoy tells Britain this is ‘worst time’ for more austerity

Exclusive: Olivier de Schutter says cuts could violate human rights laws, calling instead for higher taxes on rich

The Conversation

Ebola in Uganda: lessons from COVID show that heavy-handed lockdowns may be a bad idea

Since the first case of the current Ebola outbreak in Uganda was confirmed in mid-September, the number of cases has topped 127 across seven districts, including 17 in the capital city Kampala.

The National (Scotland)

Scotland's rural communities 'falling between cracks' of UK energy support scheme

SCOTLAND’S rural communities risk entering severe fuel poverty after “falling between the cracks” of the UK Government’s energy support…

The Guardian - US

These midterm elections have enormous stakes for poor and low-income Americans

Our country faces a material and moral crisis – and Republicans are offering only resentment and false solutions

Liverpool Echo

New Liverpool music festival aims to 'end food poverty in our city'

Food Aid Liverpool will feature a number of the UK’s best tribute artists

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