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Almost 1000 East Renfrewshire children could be pushed into poverty

Council officials reported analysis has revealed child poverty is set to increase as the cost of living crisis hits East Renfrewshire residents.

Glasgow Live

Labour candidate on poverty shame after being forced into 'debt to eat'

Portia Fahey is wanting to use her first-hand experience to help others

Liverpool Echo

'Warm banks' planned for East Renfrewshire as residents face fuel poverty

The council is working with community organisations to develop 'warm spaces' which 'will build on existing activities and advice services across a range of sites'.

Glasgow Live

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Builders' merchants stock cupboard with Cup-a-Soups to help hungry staff

Conor Edwards shared a photo of a fully-stocked cupboard of food supplies to help colleagues who may be struggling with the cost-of-living crisis

Wales Online

Derry group call for emergency rent freeze and eviction law in Northern Ireland

"People are being driven from poverty to destitution."

Belfast Live

Trademarket holding sip and paint event to mark National Gin and Tonic Day

A portion of all ticket sales will go to combatting period poverty in Northern Ireland

Belfast Live

John Byrne artwork among items at church sale to raise cash for charity

The money raised will go towards Christian Aid, a global movement of people, churches and local organisations working to eradicate extreme poverty.

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Millions forced to skip meals as UK cost of living crisis deepens

More people – including children – going hungry than during first weeks of Covid lockdown, new data shows

The Guardian - UK

Ministers urged to publish health disparities white paper to reduce child poverty

Over 1,000 child health professionals have written to Liz Truss urging her to speed up publication of the white paper

Evening Standard

JobSeeker has kept recipients below the poverty line for years, but advocates say they've never been worse off

As food prices and living costs rise, social services advocates say they've never seen Australians on JobSeeker struggling this much.

ABC News

'You don't want to live anymore.' California's seniors living in poverty struggle without retirement savings

At 61, Linda Fett arrived at the Union Rescue Mission on skid row this year without any savings. After her divorce in 1992, the long-term caregiver used what little money she had to pay bills, including car payments and other expenses, in order to live independently.

Los Angeles Times

Eminem at 50: Bizarre conspiracy theory over famous rapper remerges amid birthday celebrations

The rapper grew up in poverty in Detroit before becoming one of the most successful artists of our generation.

Daily Record

A third of single mothers in financial hardship due to welfare policies, analysis finds

Multiple policy decisions by both Liberal and Labor governments blamed for situation where one in eight Australian children live in poverty

The Guardian - AU

A warning to Truss and Hunt: people see the chaos and unfairness – and they won’t accept it

Activists and unions don’t want Tory austerity, or the opposition’s bland alternative, says former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn

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Bristol Post

Energy price cap ending in April will 'make a huge difference' and push more people into fuel poverty

'We need to think a lot more of the people who are most vulnerable in our society'

Evening Standard

What is the threshold for fuel poverty? How to find out your status

There is help available for fuel-poor households – find out whether you qualify

Irish Mirror

Calls for government to increase core social welfare payments by €8 with almost 10% of us living in poverty

It comes as a recent study found that one in every nine people in Ireland lives in poverty

Evening Standard

210,000 London pupils in poverty but no free school meals

Over 40 per cent of children in the capital living in poverty are unable to receive free school meals

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The Independent UK

New figures show extent of hunger crisis facing schoolchildren

Feed the Future: At least a third of children in poverty across London, the East of England and the South East of England can’t access free school meals

Daily Record

DWP urged to introduce £25 weekly uplift immediately on all means-tested benefits to help with cost of living

Devolved ministers are also calling for the benefit cap and two-child limit to be abolished.

Daily Mirror

UN poverty chief warns cuts will cost lives as experts say there's 'no fat to trim'

Liz Truss has been hit by multiple warnings of what'll happen if she slashes public spending - as her new Chancellor Jeremy Hunt warned every department could face cuts to balance the books

Asharq Al-Awsat

UN: Ukraine War Pushes 4 Million Children into Poverty

Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the resulting economic fallout have thrown four million children into poverty across eastern Europe and Central Asia, the UN children's agency said Monday. "Children are bearing the heaviest burden of the economic crisis caused by the war in Ukraine," UNICEF said. The conflict "and rising…

France 24

Russian ‘kamikaze’ drones strike Kyiv, Zelensky says attacks ‘won’t break’ Ukrainians

Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelensky’s chief of staff said Russian “kamikaze drones” hit Kyiv early on Monday. Zelensky said Russia had launched a barrage of drone and missile attacks across the country, but that the strikes would not "break" Ukrainians. Read our live blog to see how all the day's events…

The Guardian - AU

Fighter jet crashes in Russian city near Ukraine; Kyiv says 108 women freed in prisoner swap – as it happened

Fighter plane hits residential building in southern Russian city of Yeysk; Ukraine says it is first all-female exchange with Moscow

Al Jazeera

Russia war in Ukraine pushes 4 million children into poverty: UN

Study of 22 countries shows children in Russia and Ukraine were most affected by the economic fallout of war, UN says.

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