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Free organ transplant: 73 patients have benefitted since inception of scheme in 2019

Only below poverty line (BPL) patients are eligible under the free organ transplantation scheme — heart, liver, and kidney — in government and private-empaneled hospitals in Karnataka

The Hindu

When the choice is between poor-quality medicine and no medicine at all

Poverty drives the market in inferior medicines just as it drives other examples of inequality. A socially integrated approach is needed to fight the problem.

360info

Garment workers and their ongoing battle

Garment workers and their struggle with getting their compensation on time, lawfully and above the minimum wages seem to see some favourable amendments in a few Asian provinces ever since the round of petitions and treaties has been signed by several organisations, activists and institutions of NGOs. Earning a living…

The Times of India

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California OKs 'baby bonds' to help combat child poverty

California has approved trust funds for some children from low-income families who lost a parent or caregiver to COVID-19

The Independent UK

How ready is California to help if Congress kills Obamacare subsidies?

The state of California is ready with $304 million to help lower- and middle-income consumers pay for health insurance if federal subsidies end. But the fund will cover only a fraction of what would be lost.

Tribune News Service

One in five Knowsley children living in poverty

Nearly half of all secondary pupils are in receipt of free school meals, according to a new report into child poverty in Knowsley

Liverpool Echo

UK cost-of-living package doesn’t go far enough, say charities

Child poverty campaigners criticise government plans for free theatre tickets and supermarket discounts

The Guardian - UK

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Gordon Brown calls for emergency Budget to help Brits tackle cost of living crisis

Gordon Brown has criticised the Government for failing to support families who are struggling due to the cost of living crisis and said that millions now dread the coming months

Daily Mirror

North Ayrshire Council agrees to new measures to tackle child poverty

North Ayrshire Council has approved a new action plan to tackle child poverty, which has risen faster in the area than throughout Scotland as a whole

The National (Scotland)

Stirling MSP blasts "silence" of PM hopefuls on poverty concerns

The state of child poverty in Stirling was recently laid bare in a report.

Daily Record

Colombia's congress begins new session with ambitious reform agenda

Colombia's congress opens its new session on Wednesday, with a slate of ambitious tax-and-spend and other legislation on the horizon under incoming President-elect Gustavo Petro, intended to combat poverty and inequality.

Reuters

Child poverty rate drops in West Dunbartonshire - but remains above Scottish average

The End Child Poverty statistics reveal almost one-quarter of children are living below the breadline, though the figure has reduced by 15 percent.

Daily Record

AP PHOTOS: Afghan despair, poverty fuel addiction scourge

Drug addiction has long been a problem in Afghanistan, the world’s biggest producer of opium and heroin

The Independent UK

David Evans obituary

Other lives: Development economist who worked on the inequality and poverty impacts of trade liberalisation

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Poverty and booze is bringing this part of the North East to its knees

Health bosses are very worried

Daily Record

More than one in five children in Dumfries and Galloway living in poverty

More than 5,000 kids are deemed to be caught in the poverty trap

Daily Record

Renfrewshire MSP slams Tory candidates for "silence" on child poverty

Families are struggling to pay for basic needs such as shoes and many are relying on food banks to feed their families

Daily Record

Lanarkshire MSP hits out at Tory leadership candidates' 'silence' over child poverty

Fulton MacGregor claims 'progress is being undermined by decades of Westminster austerity policies'

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The Independent UK

Slovenia army starts removing Croatia border razor wire

The Slovenian army has started removing a razor wire fence on the border with Croatia that was put up to curb migrant crossings after more than a million people fleeing violence and poverty entered Europe in a huge migration wave in 2015

Daily Record

Thousands of kids living in poverty across Stirling as report lays bare true scale of issue

The report also reveals that around 200,000 children were in poverty in Scotland in 2021.

The Independent UK

Where food is a luxury: Turkey struggles to survive as inflation rises to over 74 per cent

One subsidised restaurant seeks to help Turks facing escalating living costs. But such acts do little against a soaring inflation rate

Chronicle Live

Desperate North East families forced to go without fridge-freezers as energy bills soar

Poverty groups are warning the situation will 'get even worse' this winter with foodbanks being 'overwhelmed'

Daily Record

New 'extremely worrying' child poverty stats details worst hit areas where Ayrshire kids are living below breadline

The figures come from the End Child Poverty Coalition and have been met with dismay.

The Conversation

Worried about high energy bills, some Canadians risk discomfort, illness and even death

Almost one in 10 Canadian households spend more than 10 per cent of their income to heat and cool their homes, keep the lights on and to store or cook food. For these households, the high cost of energy, which includes electricity, natural gas, heating oil and propane, means they…

The Guardian - UK

One in 12 UK children now in families hit by two-child benefit limit

DWP data shows 1.3m children affected by limit as research shows risk of long-lasting harm increasing due to cost of living crisis

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