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Fans Supporting Foodbanks Scotland urges football lovers to unite against poverty

Fans Supporting Foodbanks Scotland (FSFS) is borne out of the idea that football fans can come together, even if they back different teams, to support good causes.

Daily Record

NDIS less help in remote WA, inquiry told

A royal commission has been told there is less support for disabled people in a remote WA town under the NDIS compared with the old state-based system.

AAP

The Mancunian Way: Child poverty hotspot

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Manchester Evening News

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PMGKAY and other tailor-made schemes saved poor from impact of inflation: Finance minister

NEW DELHI: Government's tailor-made programmes, including the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Yojana (PMGKAY), played a key role in saving the poor and vulnerable section from the impact of inflation, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Tuesday.

The Times of India

Inflation impact on India’s poor negligible, says FM citing UNDP report

Well-tailored programmes to ensure people don’t run the risk of slipping into poverty seem to have made an impact, she says

The Hindu

A moment of mounting chaos: the Somalia of Mo Farah’s childhood

Farah grew up at a time of deep poverty and instability in the Horn of Africa, where criminal networks smuggling resources and people flourished

The Guardian - UK

Child poverty is falling in most of the UK but not in Wales

Wales is one of just a few parts of the UK that have seen a rise in child poverty

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Cause of homelessness? It's not drugs or mental illness, researchers say

SAN DIEGO — Ask just about anyone for their thoughts on what causes homelessness, and you will likely hear drug addiction, mental illness, alcoholism and poverty.

Tribune News Service

The Northern Agenda: Our new child poverty capital revealed

Rising rates restricting the life chances of people in the North from the day they're born

Manchester Evening News

Numbers Highlight Lebanon’s Collapse During Aoun’s Tenure

Less than two months before the constitutional date that allows for the election of a new president for Lebanon, the severe economic and financial crisis that the country has been witnessing since the fall of 2019 continues to worsen. The devaluation of the Lebanese currency, which has lost more than…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Being poor in the UK is an expensive business

The cost of living crisis is nothing new for millions of people who have lived in fear of hunger and homelessness for 12 years, says London-based writer Francisco Garcia

The Guardian - UK

Child poverty rates still ‘stubbornly’ high, campaigners warn

THE Scottish Government is being urged to “act now” by campaigners, as child poverty remains “stubbornly” high across Scotland.

The National (Scotland)

The Guardian view on child poverty: a crisis but no policy

Editorial: The north-east has overtaken London on child poverty. Alarming price rises are on the cards. Yet the Tories have nothing to say

The Guardian - UK

North-east England overtakes London as UK’s child poverty hotspot

Almost two-fifths of children in north-east live in poverty after a decade of decline as campaigners warn of worse to come

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Child poverty reaches huge levels in North East, new figures show

Newcastle has seen the number of children growing up poor rise by 50% in the last seven years - the biggest increase in the UK

Bristol Post

Bristol has highest levels of child poverty in the South West

It equates to ten children in a classroom of 30

The Independent UK

Child poverty fell during pandemic amid temporary universal credit uplift

Groups fear more families will be pushed into poverty, with the £20-a-week uplift now removed and the cost-of-living crisis continuing to deepen.

The Independent UK

State lotteries transfer wealth out of needy communities

Lottery retailers in nearly every state are clustered in lower-income neighborhoods, driving a wealth transfer from less affluent and educated Americans to the multinational corporations that are increasingly managing the day-to-day operations of the state-sanctioned gambling games

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Daily Record

Damning report shows that almost 20 per cent of children in Renfrewshire are living in poverty

More than 5,000 children in Renfrewshire and more than 2,000 in East Renfrewshire classified as living in poverty by new report.

The Guardian - US

‘An inequality story’: Utah abortion ban will drive women further into poverty

Women already make 30% less than men in the state, with new restrictions affecting women of color and single mothers

Daily Record

Secret code for free food at restaurant as venue launches bid to tackle summer food poverty

The pub has launched the idea for the school holidays.

The Hindu

Poverty no obstacle to civil services dream, aspirants told

Senior bureaucrat says distraction levels are higher among rich aspirants

Daily Record

Scotland captain Andy Robertson vows to kick out hunger with backing for free school meals campaign

The Liverpool left-back is supporting the Sunday Mail-led calls which would help to ease the cost of living crisis on families.

Daily Mirror

'Whoever becomes next PM needs a plan - millionaires are no use in poverty crisis'

It's a tragedy that Britain - one of the world's richest economies - has almost double the number of foodbanks than there are McDonald's that are relied upon around the country

Liverpool Echo

Royal Mail staff 'using foodbanks and withdrawing savings to buy nappies'

"It's here amongst us now. People in poverty are people who are working."

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