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John Swinney: UK Government policies create more poverty

Scotland’s Deputy First Minister accused the UK Government of creating more poverty with policies such as cutting Universal Credit.

The Independent UK

How Tamil Nadu has fared in Sustainable Development Goals

Nearly ₹7,340 crore in wages was paid to unskilled labour in the State under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme during 2021-22, illustrating its performance in tackling poverty when SDG Week is being observed globally

The Hindu

‘We’re in a moral crisis’: US faith leaders urge lawmakers to combat poverty

Coalition gathers on Capitol Hill to deliver impassioned demand to improve life for low-income Americans

The Guardian - US

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Billy Porter discusses Global Citizen Fest performance and reveals new album will be ‘adult pop’ — ‘like Lady Gaga’

NEW YORK — Billy Porter is set to lend his voice in a bid to end poverty.

Tribune News Service

As Bishop of London this is why I am campaigning for a real Living Wage

Dignity is something we all deserve. Workers should feel valued and respected, yet so many are being thrust into in-work poverty due to low pay.

Evening Standard

UK children’s doctors given advice on how to help families in poverty

Health experts encourage doctors to talk about nutrition and socio-economic circumstances

The Guardian - UK

City Council approves Chicago Fire’s training center on Near West Side

The 36-11 vote came after a debate over the project’s merits in an area beset by poverty and whether the land could be better used for public housing.

Chicago Sun-Times

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Northern Ireland 'Crushed by the Cost of Living' event hears shocking impact of poverty

The damning indictment emerged as campaigners came together to call for more action

Belfast Live

Our country yearns for unity - but Truss’s government is mercilessly dividing it into rich and poor

For the first time since the welfare state was created, the food bank will be our safety net and charity our last line of defence, says former prime minister Gordon Brown

The Guardian - UK

A disability program promised to lift people from poverty. Instead, it left many homeless

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — After two months of sleeping in the Salvation Army Center of Hope homeless shelter, Margaret Davis has had no luck finding an apartment she can afford.

Tribune News Service

Horrific stories reveal impact of poverty on North East children

Stories of individual hardship and suffering are included in the report from the North East Child Poverty Commission

Chronicle Live

Anger as North East's child poverty gap reaches 20-year high

The North East Child Poverty Commission has highlighted a 'growing chasm' between the Government's levelling up agenda and the reality in the region

Chronicle Live

Expanded child tax credit reduced child poverty, so Congress must renew it

After the election, some politicians in Congress will try to pass tax credits for large corporations. It would be outrageous for Congress to pass tax cuts for the wealthy without expanding the CTC

Chicago Sun-Times

‘If only they made better life choices’ – how simplistic explanations of poverty and food insecurity miss the mark

The way we perceive poverty, hunger and household food insecurity is shaped by media, government policy, public relations, advertising and personal experience. But one persistent strand is the notion that poverty and food insecurity are the result of poor personal choices and priorities.

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Asharq Al-Awsat

UN Chief Warns Global Leaders: The World Is in ‘Great Peril’

Warning that the world is in "great peril," the head of the United Nations says leaders meeting in person for the first time in three years must tackle conflicts and climate catastrophes, increasing poverty and inequality — and address divisions among major powers that have gotten worse since Russia invaded…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Iraq's Mighty River Drying Up

It was the river that is said to have watered the biblical Garden of Eden and helped give birth to civilization itself. But today the Tigris is dying. Human activity and climate change have choked its once mighty flow through Iraq, where -- with its twin river the Euphrates --…

France 24

UN chief warns that world is in ‘great peril’ as leaders arrive for General Assembly

Warning that the world is in “great peril,” the head of the United Nations says leaders meeting in person for the first time in three years must tackle conflicts and climate catastrophes, increasing poverty and inequality — and address divisions among major powers that have gotten worse since Russia invaded…

The Independent UK

Q&A: Amanda Gorman talks UN poem, fame, future presidency

When poet Amanda Gorman was invited to read a newly developed poem at the U.N. General Assembly, the young sensation took a deep look at how societal issues like hunger and poverty have impacted Earth’s preservation

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Bangkok Post

Minimum wage hike seen reducing poverty in Thailand

Krungthai Compass, a research unit under Krungthai Bank, expects the minimum wage increase to reduce the number of poor workers, improve their income, and broadly support long-term Thai economic growth.

WEKU

The clock is ticking for U.N. goals to end poverty — and it doesn't look promising

Can we end poverty, provide food for all and otherwise make Earth a better place by 2030? By all accounts, the answer is no. So then what's the point of the Sustainable Development Goals?

Reuters

Poet Amanda Gorman, K-pop's Blackpink push global goals at U.N.

South Korean pop band Blackpink and American poet Amanda Gorman took to the United Nations stage on Monday to urge action on climate change and other global goals that include achieving gender equality and ending hunger and poverty.

Glasgow Live

Glasgow families living on £115 below poverty line every week

There are now more than a quarter of children in the city enduring relative poverty

Daily Record

Paisley charity boss is tackling food waste and poverty with project called TeaBags

The Star Project initiative provides a family with everything they need to make a healthy meal and helps reduce food waste in the process

The Hindu

Poverty and lack of transportation to reach schools are reasons for dropout among tribal children in Erode: study

The study recommends, monthly incentives for children who return to schools and uniforms and coverage under mid-day meal scheme up to Class 12.

Daily Record

Calls for poverty-stricken Scots criminals to escape punishment amid cost-of-living crisis

John Holland McKendrick, professor of social justice at Glasgow Caledonian University, hopes the police and prosecutors will go easy on desperate offenders.

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