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Frontline council staff in Renfrewshire are struggling to feed their families

GMB union hits out in pay row as strike action looms, saying: "We have taken devastating calls from members telling us they can’t afford to live"

Daily Record

Unequal power relations driven by poverty fuel sexual violence in Lake Chad region

There have been multiple instances of sexual violence against women and girls in the Lake Chad region since terrorism activity started in the area in 2009. The region includes Nigeria, Chad, Niger and Cameroon.

The Conversation

Pa. continues to fund antiabortion organization in new budget

As it’s done for years, the state of Pennsylvania approved funding in the budget it passed last month to support the antiabortion movement, some of it with money diverted from cash assistance for people in poverty.

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Group of young people take on fundraising walk to tackle period poverty in the North East

The Menstrual Bakers is helping to provide girls and women with period products who may not be able to afford them

Chronicle Live

British Gas, EDF, Scottish Power, Octopus: Energy support funds as bills set to reach £3,600

The average bill is expected to hit around £3,600 in October and then rise again in January with experts warning that thousands could fall into fuel poverty as the cost of living and energy crisis continues.

Edinburgh Live

BP ‘laughing all the way to the bank’ with bumper profits while households face poverty, say campaigners

Oil giant sees profits triple to £6.9bn in second quarter while households struggle with massive bill increases

The Independent UK

Scots teachers left 'repairing the damage' caused by covid lockdowns on pupils

MSPs have been warned the attainment gap between the richest and poorest pupils in Scotland has widened as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.

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How a universal basic income helped Kenyans

When the Covid-19 pandemic and the resulting recession pushed 120 million people worldwide into extreme poverty in 2020, many countries relied on social-protection measures to cushion the blow. By May 2021, a total of 3,333 such schemes had been planned or implemented in 222 countries or territories.

Bangkok Post

Sole parents like myself are facing homelessness. It’s time our PM realised this is not the Australia he grew up in

Anthony Albanese may speak proudly of being raised by a single mum in public housing, but life has become a lot harsher for those with less

The Guardian - AU

New QUB and UU Student Union Presidents on the challenges ahead as they take up key roles

Meet the new student leaders Emma Murphy and Grace Boyle

Belfast Live

South Africa is trapped again: what kind of leaders can set the country free

Former South African president Thabo Mbeki recently painted a gloomy picture of the country and its prospects. He said the governing African National Congress (ANC), led by President Cyril Ramaphosa, did not have a national plan to address the country’s many socio-economic problems. These include high and growing unemployment, inequality,…

The Conversation

Kentucky Flooding Death Toll Rises to 25

Devastating flooding in Kentucky has killed 25 people and the toll is expected to rise, the southern US state's governor said Saturday, as rescuers and residents continued a harrowing search for survivors. Torrential rain earlier this week caused unprecedented flash flooding in 13 counties in eastern Kentucky, AFP said. Many…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Can ‘social tariffs’ solve the UK’s looming fuel poverty cataclysm?

MPs and charities are supporting a new billing structure featuring subsidised lower-cost energy for people in need

The Guardian - UK

Food and fuel poverty has more than tripled in a year, says Citizens Advice

Huge rise in numbers forced to choose between eating and heating in UK, says charity

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Daily Mirror

UK's heat hazard hotspots ranked on 'league table' as temperatures set to soar again

The league table ranks the areas of the UK most at risk during heatwaves with analysis suggesting those most affected are closest to the poverty line after temperatures hit 41C

The Independent UK

Unfolding cost-of-living crisis ‘like watching slow-motion trainwreck’

The fuel poverty charity National Energy Action estimates 8.7 million UK households will be in fuel poverty this winter.

The Guardian - UK

Myths about generous benefits mask the truth of Tory Britain: shamefully low taxes for the rich

Until a hero like Marcus Rashford forces people to confront the reality of hungry children, misinformation and complacency about the lives of the poorest reign, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

Tribune News Service

‘True cost of aging’ index shows many seniors can’t afford basic necessities

Fran Seeley, 81, doesn’t see herself as living on the edge of a financial crisis. But she’s uncomfortably close.

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Editorial: Can Maryland run a lottery that doesn’t victimize people living in poverty?

This Friday’s Mega Millions drawing, with its jackpot of more than $1 billion — one of the highest ever in the nation’s history — has launched a lot of daydreaming of what life as a billionaire might be like (or, more realistically, a third- or half- billionaire after taxes, depending…

Daily Record

Hundreds of West Dunbartonshire families on benefits are being affected by two-child limit on payments

Institute for Fiscal Studies report, published last week, found that benefit cuts had pushed up child poverty levels prior to the Covid-19 pandemic, with families with three or more children seeing “substantially larger” increases.

Chronicle Live

New call to scrap standing charge as families struggle with energy rises during cost of living crisis

Campaigners calls for daily fee to be abolished amid fears than more than a third of homes will be in fuel poverty by Christmas

Chronicle Live

PM hopefuls Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak set out vision for the North

Their comments come after northern newspapers united to demand action on child poverty, the cost of living and levelling up.

The Conversation

George Floyd deserved a better life. A new book charts his trajectory from poverty to the US prison-industrial complex – and the impact of his death

George Perry Floyd, Jr. was murdered when Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin sank his knee into Floyd’s neck for nine minutes and 29 seconds. Video footage went viral within hours, helping to inspire protests against racism and police violence that lasted all the American summer of 2020.

The Independent UK

Minister: Lebanon to build new silos to ease wheat crisis

Cash-strapped Lebanon plans to build two new grain silos to fight its food security crisis for millions living in poverty

Daily Mirror

Energy bills 'could reach almost £4,000 next year' as households face fuel poverty

Household energy costs could hit almost £4,000 from January, as Brits face these bills almost quadrupling due to the soaring cost of gas being passed on to consumers

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