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The Observer view on the spring statement: cutting spending is not the only option, chancellor

Further reductions can only increase disability and child poverty, and further undermine public services

The Guardian - UK

Plaid Cymru leader takes inspiration from Scotland with child payment pledge

Plaid Cymru will launch a “transformational” payment to tackle the “national stain” of child poverty if it leads the next Welsh government,…

The National (Scotland)

Plaid leader pledges to launch payments for poor children

Rhun ap Iorwerth said child poverty ‘remains a national stain’ with children ‘not even afforded the decency of good health and the bare essentials’.

Evening Standard

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Police investigating alleged online threats to third Sydney mosque – as it happened

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The Guardian - AU

Different pace and priorities separate Texas Senate and House on school vouchers

The gaps over eligibility and on spending levels are narrower than the fundamental differences of the previous session.

The Texas Tribune

Labour's benefits cuts risk disabled people turning to food banks, charity warns

Labour's "cruel" benefits cuts risk disabled people being forced to turn to food banks, an anti-poverty charity has warned ...

The National (Scotland)

Actor Brian Cox asks Government to act on poverty after living ‘brutal reality’

The Succession actor has backed Action For Children’s call for the Government to lift more than one million children out of poverty.

Evening Standard

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Scrapping two-child benefit cap could lift 600,000 children out of poverty in five years, analysis finds

Lifting two-child benefit cap ‘single most cost-effective policy’ for government, charity finds

The Independent UK

Fears Labour's disability benefits cut to be 'really quite severe' for Scotland

The UK Government has come under fire for changes to the welfare system with Scotland’s Social Justice Secretary warning of the “devastating…

The National (Scotland)

Welfare reforms will be ‘devastating’ for disabled, Shirley-Anne Somerville says

The Scottish Social Justice Secretary spoke out after the UK Government set out a series of reforms to the welfare system.

Evening Standard

Labour is gaslighting disabled people – and that should terrify us all

The messaging that suggests poverty is caused by low aspiration and that disability is a choice could have come straight from the Conservatives’ playbook, writes Zoe Williams

The Guardian - UK

Voices: Is Labour’s welfare reform going too far – or is it necessary to balance the books? Join The Independent Debate

THE INDEPENDENT DEBATE: Labour’s reforms to benefits aim to reduce economic inactivity and encourage work, but critics warn they could push vulnerable people further into poverty

The Independent UK

Rescuing Nigeria: how to break the cycle of decline and bring progress

Nigeria has abundant human and natural resources but remains mired in underdevelopment. There are high levels of poverty, corruption, unemployment and inequality. The country is currently witnessing a rise in ethnic militias and terrorism, adding to the threats posed by armed herdsmen’s deadly clashes with rural communities over land.

The Conversation

How far will Starmer risk pushing Labour MPs to swallow welfare cuts?

Many MPs will feel that pushing people in to poverty to balance the books is not what they came into politics to do

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Benefit cuts will push more people into poverty, warns Citizens Advice boss

Exclusive: Clare Moriarty hits out at Labour’s plan as ‘short-term action’ with ‘long-term consequences’ in rare intervention

The Guardian - UK

Amid all the noise about the UK’s ‘two-tier’ justice system, there is silence on class

New sentencing guidelines for England and Wales address gender and ethnicity but ignore poverty

Euronews

CommonEn: A Greek model for tackling energy poverty

In the Greek city of Ioannina, the CommonEn energy community provides a sustainable, renewable-powered solution to energy poverty.

The Independent UK

Calls grow for households to get refunds after energy companies pocket £4bn excess profits

Campaigners urge Ofgem to refund UK households after energy network companies ‘profit from high inflation’

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The National (Scotland)

Keir Starmer’s contempt for those on benefits is fuelled by tired stereotype

OKAY, Starmer, what have you got for us today? The benefits system is the “worst of all worlds”?

The Guardian - US

From sleeping in doorways to reporting on homelessness: the journalist chronicling an American crisis

Kevin Fagan, who spent decades at the San Francisco Chronicle, argues in a new book that ‘atrociously unforgivable’ US poverty must be addressed

The Conversation

Myanmar’s military rule is crippling hope for young people like never before

Myanmar has struggled with civil war, military rule and widespread poverty for much of the past seven decades. But the country’s youth have never faced threats to their survival and future as severe as today.

The Independent UK

They crossed the world to reach the US. Now deported under Trump, they're stuck in Panama

Over the past week, Panama's government has released dozens of migrants from around the world who were deported from the U.S. The migrants fled conflict, religious persecution, poverty and government crackdowns in countries such as Afghanistan, Somalia, Cameroon, China, Pakistan and Iran

The Guardian - UK

Biased laws and poverty driving huge rise in female prisoners – report

First such study finds laws on abortion, debt and dress help increase rate of women being jailed twice as fast as for men

The Conversation

Despite recent increases, JobSeeker still leaves people below the poverty line. Here’s why that affects us all

Over the past two years, there has been some progress in improving the JobSeeker payment. But payment levels remain below the poverty line.

The National (Scotland)

Scottish Government announces £2 million worth of cost of living support

More than £2 million of support will be provided to individuals and families on low incomes to help with the cost of living crisis, the Scottish…

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