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World Bank says goal of ending extreme poverty by 2030 unlikely to be met

Reuters

Fleeing Lebanon to escape poverty: At least 100 die in migrant shipwreck

Three years into Lebanon's devastating financial collapse, some 80 percent of the population is now living below the poverty line. The situation is driving more and more people to risk their lives on the open seas. Last month, at least a hundred people drowned when a migrant boat capsized off…

France 24

Millions of Britons ‘unable to afford basics like toothpaste and period products’

Disabled people are disproportionately hit by hygiene poverty, charity says

The Independent UK

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Top 10 books about Nigeria

Fiction, poetry and history from an extraordinary country of great wealth and deep poverty, of huge promise and extremes of despair

The Guardian - UK

Welsh MP says the state can't 'catch' everyone and people should help each other

Robin Millar said the state should be the 'last resort' for helping people deal with the cost of living crisis

Wales Online

Amnesty: Creditors should provide debt relief to Sri Lanka

Amnesty International has appealed to international creditors to provide debt relief to Sri Lanka to alleviate suffering as its people endure hunger, worsening poverty and shortages of basic supplies

The Independent UK

India's support to poor during COVID-19 remarkable, says World Bank president

Other nations should adopt the Indian move of targeted cash transfer instead of broad subsidies, says World Bank President David Malpass

The Hindu

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Julia Gillard’s misogyny speech has empowered me – to speak up about her government’s shortcomings

Legislation passed on the day the then PM delivered her slap-down has forced single-mother families into dire poverty

The Guardian - AU

17% increase in child poverty in Sefton over past five years

A council report released this week looking at Sefton’s approach to tackling child poverty lays out the scale of the problem in the borough

Liverpool Echo

Country legend Loretta Lynn dies

The Kentucky coal miner’s daughter, whose frank songs about life and love as a woman in Appalachia pulled her out of poverty and made her a pillar of country music, has died. She was 90.

Chicago Sun-Times

Loretta Lynn, country singer of love and hardship, dies aged 90

Kentucky-born singer went from poverty and teenage marriage to becoming one of the most celebrated stars of US country

The Guardian - UK

‘You see the lack of compassion’: anger at Tories in fuel-poor Wolverhampton

City 15 miles from Tory conference has England’s highest fuel poverty rate and is setting up warm banks for winter

The Guardian - UK

A basic income grant for South Africa: more money in poor people's pockets, but at a heavy cost

Analyses of the implications of extending income support measures in South Africa, including a basic income grant, have focused on one of three things: how much it will cost, calculations about how much revenue would need to be raised (but without assessing the ripple effects), and how it might affect…

The Conversation

‘Judgemental nastiness’ People tear into MP who questioned levels of poverty because Wetherspoons isn’t empty

'How can we have food poverty when we’ve got an obesity crisis?'

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Daily Record

Falkirk Council to focus on helping those in deepening poverty

Kenneth Lawrie says the plan will help the council make tough decisions in the coming five years

France 24

Global food crisis: Famine in Somalia 'on the horizon', ONE Campaign warns

The Covid-19 pandemic, the war in Ukraine, runaway inflation and climate change are all fuelling a global food security crisis. Gayle E. Smith is the chief executive officer of the ONE Campaign, an NGO co-founded by the singer Bono. She spoke to FRANCE 24 about fighting extreme poverty in the…

Glasgow Live

Glasgow nursing staff get go-ahead to give payments to families in poverty

Previously only social work staff could give out the special destitution payments but the cost of living crisis means there is a need to respond urgently so other health workers are now being authorised to do so.

Chicago Sun-Times

Lightfoot makes case for 2023 budget, urges City Council to ‘be bold with me’

Delivering the 2023 budget address that will serve as her reelection platform, Lightfoot’s $16.4 billion spending plan has a laundry list of new and continued investments intended to ease violence, homelessness and poverty.

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Glasgow Live

West Dunbartonshire schoolchildren to be monitored in bid to close attainment gap

The local authority has outlined its education recovery and improvement strategy for season 2022/23, with tackling the poverty-related attainment gap a primary focus.

The National (Scotland)

UK Government policy 'undermining' Scotland's cost-of-living support, report shows

SCOTLAND’s Social Justice Secretary Shona Robison has said that UK Government policy is undermining Holyrood’s attempts to help those living in…

Edinburgh Live

Edinburgh nurse raised in poverty becomes 77th person to climb every UK mountain

After facing poverty throughout her childhood Sunny wanted to raise money for Christian Aid through the challenge and has raised over £4000 for the charity.

Nottingham Post

Lee Anderson says economy will only face a problem when 'Wetherspoon is empty'

He defended claims people could cook meals from scratch for 30p

Daily Record

Tory MP says UK will only be in economic crisis when 'Wetherspoons is empty'

Lee Anderson made the bold claims in a searing rant to young Conservative party members, adding that food banks are only set up by "do-gooders" who want to "make themselves feel good."

The Conversation

Kenya’s new finance minister has good credentials but he can't work miracles

President William Ruto has nominated Njuguna Ndung'u to head Kenya’s National Treasury. A Central Bank of Kenya governor for eight years between 2007 and 2015, Ndung'u is also an accomplished researcher and a University of Nairobi academic. He has extensive expertise in macroeconomics (inflation, economic growth, national income and unemployment)…

Chronicle Live

Why top Tory Michael Gove insists North East has 'bright future' despite becoming child poverty capital

The former Levelling Up Secretary says the region has grappled with 'historic challenges'

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