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How representative is Liz Truss’s cabinet of the UK population?

New PM has appointed a team that is historically inclusive in some regards. But how well does it represent the population it will govern?

The Guardian - UK

Cost of living campaign 'Enough is Enough' set to launch in Glasgow today

Enough is Enough is a campaign set up by trade unions and community organisations to ' push back against the misery forced on millions by rising bills, low wages, food poverty, shoddy housing – and a society run only for a wealthy elite'.

Glasgow Live

1 million more people in UK face poverty this winter, analysis shows

Thinktank urges government to blunt impact of rising energy prices, as deprivation levels hit 20-year high

The Guardian - UK

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Cost of living to hurl 1.3million Brits into poverty - even WITH energy bills freeze

The Legatum Institute, whose chief executive is a Tory peer, warned the number of people in poverty will rise from 13.9million in 2019/20 to 15.2million in 2022/23 - and would go much higher if bills are not frozen

Daily Mirror

We are planning ‘warm banks’ in Birmingham to try to save people abandoned by government

Without national action, fuel poverty will be life-threatening, says the Labour councillor John Cotton

The Guardian - UK

Eliminating cashless debit cards is great, but the government must be careful about what it does next

The Albanese government will keep its election commitment to abolish the cashless debit card. Cashless cards limited the financial autonomy of over 17,000 participants, a disproportionate number of whom are First Nations people.

The Conversation

More than half of minor league baseball players have voted to unionize

Most minor league players make less than the federal poverty line. The Major League Baseball Players Association has asked MLB to voluntarily recognize the unionizing efforts.

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Kim Johnson to challenge Liz Truss over free school meals

The Liverpool Riverside MP will be submitting an amendment to the Schools Bill to introduce universal free school meals

Liverpool Echo

Four famed chefs hosting 'Michelin menu' night to raise money for families 'in the grip of poverty'

The event is taking place at the Hilton Liverpool in aid of Hospitality Action

Liverpool Echo

First Minister to announce cost-of-living help for Scottish children

APPROXIMATELY 400,000 children will be eligible for an anti-poverty benefit increase from November as Nicola Sturgeon sets out a raft of…

The National (Scotland)

Free school lunch programmes boosts learning

The world's governments are gearing up for their own big education moment. At the United Nations Transforming Education Summit during Sept 16-19, they have a chance to tackle a global learning crisis that has been amplified by the Covid-19 pandemic and rising levels of child poverty and malnutrition.

Bangkok Post

Liz Truss wins contest to become UK’s next prime minister

LONDON — Liz Truss won the bitter race to succeed Boris Johnson as U.K. prime minister, and will take power with the country facing brutal economic headwinds that threaten to plunge millions of Britons into poverty this winter.

Tribune News Service

Increase welfare and fuel payments to protect Irish households facing huge winter bills, say 42 groups and charities

They have written to government ahead of the 2023 Budget announcement in three weeks

Irish Mirror

High-poverty schools struggle to earn Texas’ highest rating. Some in the Rio Grande Valley break that trend.

The Texas Education Agency has dismissed the notion that the accountability ratings are a poverty rating. As evidence, they point to districts like those in the Rio Grande Valley, which have achieved high marks while serving a high number of economically disadvantaged students.

The Texas Tribune

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The Conversation

Barbara Ehrenreich never stopped trying to change the world

We’ve just lost one of the world’s finest writers about inequality and class – and the business of being alive in the United States today. Barbara Ehrenreich, best known for her “classic of social justice literature”, Nickel and Dimed, died on Thursday, aged 81.

Chronicle Live

Tens of thousands of workers could go on strike in coming months in battle over pay, says union

Sharon Graham, general secretary of Unite, says workers are 'simply no longer prepared to accept poverty wages'

ABC News

Sri Lanka's economic crisis pushes millions into poverty as government seeks IMF bailout

As Sri Lankans battle a calamitous decline in living standards, they find themselves forced to skip meals, ration medicine and turn to firewood in place of cooking gas.

The Independent UK

Strikes involving thousands of workers could take place in coming months – Unite

The union’s general secretary said workers are ‘simply no longer prepared to accept poverty wages’.

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Gorbachev to Be Buried in Modest Funeral Snubbed by Putin

Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who launched drastic reforms that helped end the Cold War and precipitated the breakup of the Soviet Union, is set to be buried Saturday in a relatively low-key ceremony snubbed by Russian President Vladimir Putin. The Kremlin's refusal to declare a state funeral reflects its…

Wales Online

Parents to hand-wash school uniform to save money during cost of living crisis

A poll found that just under 48% of people with children at school this academic year said they 'possibly' or 'definitely' will wash uniform items by hand

The Guardian - UK

Bones and All review – cannibal romance is a heartbreaking banquet of brilliance

Venice film festival: Timothée Chalamet and Taylor Russell dazzle in Luca Guadagnino’s blood-soaked parable of poverty and rebellion

Birmingham Post

Welsh Government plans would take 135 years to insulate every fuel poor household in Wales" says Lib Dems

The party said it would set aside £1.75bn to insulate and introduce green upgrades to homes in Wales

Daily Mirror

Parents will hand-wash kids' school uniforms as they grapple with cost of living crisis

A poll found that just under 48% of people with children at school this academic year said they 'possibly' or 'definitely' will wash uniform items by hand rather a washing machine in order to save money

Evening Standard

What is the poverty threshold in the UK?

Everything you need to know about the poverty threshold in the United Kingdom

Wales Online

Calls for free school meal offer to be extended to secondary pupils

"Poverty doesn't stop at secondary school."

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