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The Latest Breaking News from Poverty

Rachel Reeves' free breakfast clubs: When will they start and which children are eligible

The Chancellor has pledged to give youngsters the ‘best start’ with her new plans

Evening Standard

‘I have £7 in my bank account’: how the two-child benefit cap changed Britain

The limit was introduced by George Osborne and has pushed whole households into poverty. Why isn’t the Labour government ditching it?

The Guardian - UK

The speech Keir Starmer should give: our economic model is broken – and I’ll pay for my own Arsenal tickets

Keir Starmer will today deliver his speech to Labour conference. This is what I believe he should say instead, says the Guardian columnist Owen Jones

The Guardian - UK

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Susie Younger obituary

Other lives: Catholic social worker helped poverty-stricken children in South Korea in the aftermath of the Korean war

The Guardian - UK

Rachel Reeves announces free school breakfast clubs from April as she doubles down on winter fuel cuts

Labour chancellor was heckled about the sale of arms to Israel as she made her speech to her party’s annual conference in Liverpool

The Independent UK

Ian Murray fumes as he accuses journalists of 'made up' anti-poverty fund claims

A LABOUR minister has accused a Scottish newspaper of having “made up” a claim that Keir Starmer would set aside a £150 million “war chest”…

The National (Scotland)

‘Exceptionally worrying’ health trends to continue under Labour’s austerity

GOVERNMENT austerity policies will risk continuing “exceptionally worrying and unprecedented” health trends, a poverty expert has warned ...

The National (Scotland)

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Lessons for Breaking the Poverty Cycle

A national nonprofit uses financial and life coaching to teach low-income parents how to move up to living wages and beyond.

Capital & Main

All devolved Scottish benefits to be raised to mitigate austerity, SNP minister says

THE Scottish Government will make it a legal requirement for all devolved benefits to be annually raised in line with inflation, the Social Justice…

The National (Scotland)

Fact check: Was Kamala Harris truthful in interview with Black journalists?

Harris spoke about the disadvantages Black Americans grapple with, and her opponent Donald Trump. We verify her claims.

Al Jazeera

New study reveals which political party has historically benefited Blacks and Latinos the most

Researches looked into income data from the past 75 years, covering 36 years under Democratic presidents and 39 under Republicans

Latin Times

Call for abolition of UK benefit cap as latest figures released

Data shows 123,000 households, containing 302,000 children, are trapped in poor housing and extreme poverty

The Guardian - UK

Bill Gates says today's global child health crisis is tomorrow's economic catastrophe

Bill Gates says malnutrition is the “world’s worst child health crisis" and climate change will only worsen it.

Fortune

A golden solution to tackling poverty in Britain

Letter: Alan Ereira suggests using the increase in value of Britain’s gold reserves to boost welfare payments to its poorest people

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The Conversation

Getting shorter and going hungrier: how children in the UK live today

Children’s lives in the UK are changing.

The Independent UK

Lib Dems to call for free school meals for all children in poverty

The party says the change would benefit a further 900,000 children

The Guardian - UK

Poorest families in UK lack beds and are sleeping on floors, charity warns

Study by Buttle UK found most families had skipped a meal and many parents said they had given their bed to a child

The Conversation

Who is in fuel poverty? The government has no idea as it moves to cut winter fuel payments

Energy is an unusual commodity as it imposes running costs and capital expenditure. The main way to permanently reduce running costs is to spend money on more efficient use of energy: better insulated homes, more modern boilers, new appliances. Energy price rises since 2020 have provided the incentive to better-off…

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The Conversation

New study links low incomes, stressed parents and child behaviour – better support would bring lifelong benefits

Poverty has long been established as a crucial factor hindering the development of young children. Living in poverty can hurt a child’s lifelong health, social and educational outcomes.

Capital & Main

California Poverty Has Nearly Doubled Since 2021

Researchers say new data shows need to pull back tax breaks for the wealthy to spend on aid.

The Guardian - US

Southern Poverty Law Center workers vote to remove CEO after ‘inhumane’ layoffs

Staffers claim June mass layoffs at civil rights non-profit was a union-busting tactic that ‘destroyed lives’

The Guardian - UK

More than a million unpaid UK carers living in poverty, research finds

Carers UK estimates 600 people a day quit jobs to care for loved ones and calls for review of benefits system

The Guardian - UK

Scottish opposition pushes Swinney on free school meal and flat-rate rail fare cuts

Scottish government accused of undermining efforts to combat child poverty and cost of living crisis

The Conversation

South Africa is failing its youngest children – report flags critical gaps in early learning, social protection and health care

Nearly 10 years ago South Africa outlined its commitment to invest in the health and development of young children.

The National (Scotland)

Quarter of Scottish parents struggle to feed children amid cost-of-living crisis

MORE than a quarter of parents have struggled to provide enough food for their children in the past year amid the cost-of-living crisis, a charity…

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