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SNP must not plug £2.1billion budget 'black hole' with cash for kids in poverty, warns Anas Sarwar

One Scottish Government idea was to stop or delay a planned £5-a-week increase to the Scottish Child Payment, a vital benefit for low income families.

Daily Record

Children in England ‘increasingly worried about impact of cost of living’

The children’s commissioner for England urged MPs to take urgent steps to tackle child poverty

The Guardian - UK

How the tampon shortage is exacerbating period poverty in the US

Tampons have become the latest household product to fall foul of supply chain issues.

The Conversation

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Could new countries be founded – on the internet?

Coinbase’s former chief technology officer wants to use social networks to create states. What doesn’t fit into his vision are things like poverty, illness and ageing

The Guardian - US

Professor Green shares how childhood struggles with poverty have affected him

The rapper is speaking out about his experiences amid the current cost of living crisis, and offers advice on how you can get help with fuel bills

Daily Mirror

Tory peer says government has made a ‘political football’ out of poverty

Philippa Stroud who heads new commission aimed at tackling hardship says ministers need a long-term plan to help the poor

The Guardian - UK

Leak shows Scottish Government facing £2.1bn 'black hole' this year as SNP accused of 'shocking' recklessness

EXCLUSIVE: The leaked finance presentation shows civil servants suggesting an option to save money would be from the flagship Scottish Child Payment

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Huge majority of the people struggling right now with fuel poverty are disabled people

A huge majority of the people struggling right now with fuel poverty are disabled people - Britain's largest minority group - as the cost of living crisis sky rockets

Daily Mirror

The Guardian view on lone parents in poverty: austerity lives on

Editorial: New analysis of the plight of millions of British children should shame ministers into action

The Guardian - UK

Nearly 1 in 4 women with children in states with anti-abortion ‘trigger’ laws are in poverty

Nine of the 13 states that are moving to outlaw abortion and criminalise care have some of the highest maternal poverty rates in the US

The Independent UK

Charity calls for Scottish Child Payment to be doubled

The Scottish Child Payment should be doubled, a charity has said as new findings suggest half of children in one parent families are in relative…

The National (Scotland)

‘Addressing poverty is real nationalism’

Khadri Shamanna Award presented to Gopal Hegde

The Hindu

Shocking stats which lay bare the poverty crisis facing disabled people in UK

Charity Mencap said people with learning disabilities are "facing a disproportionate cost of living crisis" and need more support, with working age disabled adults twice as likely to live in poverty

Daily Mirror

Half of children in single-parent families living in 'relative poverty'

It was double the number of those with two parents

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Daily Record

NHS staff's poverty fears as the Scottish Government pulls the plug on unlimited Covid sick leave

Health workers suffering from Long Covid could be left without an income after taking ill caring for others with coronavirus

The Independent UK

Almost half of children in lone-parent families in relative poverty – IFS

Some 1.5 million children were living in relative poverty in 2019-20 before the coronavirus pandemic hit, the Institute for Fiscal Studies said.

The Guardian - UK

EasyJet operations chief quits; petrol hits new high; Suez Canal’s record revenues – as it happened

EasyJet’s chief operating officer Peter Bellew resigns amid growing anger over flight disruption

The Guardian - UK

Half of all children in lone-parent families are in relative poverty

Exclusive: IFS study shows impact of Tory cuts to benefits and cost of living crisis on single mothers

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The Independent UK

DWP told to ‘get a grip’ as unpaid carers face long waits for financial support

Charity leaders warned that unpaid carers are ‘increasingly being plunged into poverty’

The Guardian - UK

UK graduate students call for more support as cost of living crisis bites

Graduates say this year’s 2.9% rise in student stipends is insufficient and could push them into poverty

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Poverty charity in Gateshead calls on businesses to help out with cost of living

A total 44,000 people were supported by Feeding Families last year, but workers are expecting 'perfect storm' to put more into financial difficulties

Irish Mirror

Pensioners and social welfare recipients 'in line for early Christmas Bonus'

Our nationwide survey of 2,300 people have shown 64% feel they are living in relative poverty.

The Texas Tribune

Migrants in Texas trailer tragedy died seeking better lives

News of the trailer full of bodies struck horror in cities and villages accustomed to watching their young people leave, trying to flee poverty or violence in Central America and Mexico.

Bangkok Post

Crisis to crisis: What Asia learned from the financial chaos of 1997

Twenty-five years ago this month marked the beginning of economic, political and financial market turmoil that would become known as the Asian Financial Crisis. Currencies and stock markets tumbled. Governments were overthrown. Poverty rates soared.

Bristol Post

Asda and Aldi have renamed shopping aisles - but some shoppers aren't impressed

Shoppers have raised a number of issues surrounding period poverty, transphobia and the general stigma surrounding menstruation

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