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Greens and David Pocock question why expert panel will not have members with lived experience of economic exclusion and disability

CLP leader Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka dismissed CM K.Chandrasekhar Rao's comments on "Indiramma Rajyam", saying it meant welfare & development. He claimed Indira Gandhi implemented poverty alleviation, nationalised banks & ended feudal culture. He accused Rao of false claims & bungling in TSPSC Group-I exams. He promised Congress will implement 6…

Each year antimicrobial resistance – the ability of microbes to survive agents designed to kill them – claims more lives than malaria and HIV/Aids combined. Africa bears the brunt of this development, which thrives on inequality and poverty. Nadine Dreyer asked Tom Nyirenda, a research scientist with over 27 years’…

Thousands of families are lining up for free handouts at food banks across the Netherlands

Chancellor warned ‘ill-conceived’ £1,000-a-year discounts will benefit wealthy people in countryside – while leaving those in fuel poverty using food banks

Amid skyrocketing poverty and inflation, Argentinians face a stark choice on Sunday between two wildly different presidential candidates. Libertarian Javier Milei has led a disruptive campaign that has galvanised voters and won support from a faction of the traditional far-right. But a shock first-round victory for current Economy Minister Sergio…

Nicolas, a 20-year-old student in Buenos Aires, faces an economic crisis reflected in 143% inflation & increased poverty. Javier Milei, an economist advocating tax cuts & dollarisation, is in a runoff against the Minister of Economy. People are deprived of basic needs & must be resourceful to survive. Lionel Vargas…

Now's your chance to bid for them in the world's largest celebrity shoe auction and help children out of poverty

As Argentina gets ready to vote for a new president, over 40 percent of its population live under the poverty line as their budgets are squeezed by triple digit inflation. The two candidates running for president – far-right libertarian outsider Javier Milei and ruling Peronist economy minister Sergio Massa –…