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Rangers and Liverpool fans unite to deliver food bank goods to needy families

Fans Supporting Foodbanks and trade union Unite organised the donations to help support city residents suffering food poverty.

Daily Record

‘Lula represents hope’: Brazil presidential frontrunner takes his message into Rio’s favelas

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva promises to give far-right rival Jair Bolsonaro a ‘thrashing’ in tighter-than-expected presidential race

The Guardian - AU

Labor's new plan to slash consultancy bill

The finance minister has outlined a new plan to cut back on consultancy fees while the treasurer has promised to leave controversial stage three tax cuts alone.

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'I've had my electricity cut three times', people struggling with cost of living speak out

The Larder food poverty charity hosted The West Lothian Cost of Living Crisis Emergency Roundtable Discussion for people to share their stories

Daily Record

Andhra Pradesh: YSRCP govt. is mired in corruption, says BJP MP Bhola Singh

‘Several welfare schemes have been stopped, forcing the Dalits languish in poverty’

The Hindu

Labour plans would cause blackouts and poverty, says climate minister

Graham Stuart said the UK would still be burning oil and gas in 2050 and domestic production was the greenest way to do this.

The Independent UK

Don’t let ‘warm banks’ become as vital as food banks, Scottish charities urge

Campaigners say emergency response to fuel poverty risks shifting focus away from government responsibility

The Guardian - UK

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Charities call on government to urgently increase number of free school meals

Feed the Future: Organisations partnering with The Independent’s Feed the Future campaign call for meals to be extended to all children in poverty

The Independent UK

Calls grow to give free school meals to all children in poverty

Special investigation: David Cohen talks to increasingly desperate parents queueing with empty shopping bags outside a school near Battersea Power Station

Evening Standard

Lanarkshire MSP calls for free school meals to be extended to all pupils following Challenge Poverty Week

Monica Lennon MSP is urging the Scottish Government to extend the scheme to P6, P7, and secondary pupils.

Daily Record

Hu Chunhua: From rural roots to candidate for China premiership

From humble roots as the son of farmers in central Hubei province, Hu Chunhua has worked his way into China's ruling elite and is considered a top contender to become the next premier as the ruling Communist Party reshuffles its leadership.

Reuters

‘Remixed’ version of Wordsworth and Coleridge’s Lyrical Ballads highlights 21st-century poverty

The Refuge from the Ravens project places new works alongside the original ‘redefining it to help people grasp the concept’ of homelessness

The Guardian - UK

The Standard View: End the lottery over free school meals

Ensuring every child has enough to eat at school is a moral imperative. It is also a benefit to wider society. A PwC study, seen exclusively by the Evening Standard and our sister paper, The Independent, finds that extending free school meals to all children in poverty in England would…

Evening Standard

Jamie Oliver says England is 'mean' compared to Wales and has 'no faith' in Liz Truss

The outspoken chef has said he is 'up for a fight' over tackling child poverty

Wales Online

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The Independent UK

Jamie Oliver says ‘children coming to school with empty lunchboxes’ in free meals plea

The Independent and the Food Foundation is calling for free school meals for all children in poverty

Chronicle Live

Calls for Tory councillor who claimed people 'aren't starving in the streets' to resign

The Northumberland councillor's views during an interview at the Conservative Party Conference have been branded 'disgusting'

Asharq Al-Awsat

UN: 54 Poor Nations Urgently Need Debt Relief

Cascading global crises have left 54 countries -- home to more than half of the world's poorest people -- in dire need of debt relief, the UN said Tuesday. In a new report, the United Nations Development Program warned that dozens of developing nations were facing a rapidly deepening debt…

The Guardian - US

Republicans oppose social spending – will it cost them in the midterms?

Economy in focus: In Mississippi, poverty is high and water problems blight the state. But Republicans seem adamantly against spending to help their constituents

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The Independent UK

Children face a hunger crisis – the government needs to act by providing more free school meals

Feed the Future: The Independent partners with the Food Foundation to call on the government to give meals to all schoolchildren living in poverty but who are not currently eligible

Evening Standard

School hunger: ‘They buy fruit with coppers but get upset when they can’t afford anything else’

Free school meals should be a human right, not a benefit

Evening Standard

Free school meals plea for every child living in poverty

Special investigation: Move would benefit Britain by £2.5billion over 20 years

Daily Record

Poverty throttling life out of Scotland as life expectancy falls

A baby born between 2019 and 2021 can expect to live 76 years if male and 80 years for women. That’s a reduction of 11 weeks on the previous figures.

The Independent UK

Fifth of residential care workers ‘in poverty before cost-of-living crisis’

For many providing care “work is not a reliable route out of poverty”, the Health Foundation warned.

The Conversation

Shannon Burns' Childhood is a story of disconnection, neglect, violence and poverty

Shannon Burns’ memoir Childhood begins with an epigraph from Leo Tolstoy’s book of the same name:

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on benefits: stuck in austerity’s shadow

Editorial: An expected U-turn on further cuts to universal credit can’t come soon enough

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