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Ending extreme poverty is within Labour’s grasp

Letters: Prof Mike Stein on an ‘essentials guarantee’ to lift people out of destitution. Plus letters from Andrew Forsey, Austen Lynch and Alexandra Smithies

The Guardian - UK

South Africa begins an inquiry into a building fire that killed 76 people in Johannesburg in August

An inquiry has opened into an apartment building fire that killed at least 76 people in South Africa in August and laid bare the deep problems of poverty and neglect in parts of Africa’s richest city

The Independent UK

Arles or nothing … can shiny culture bridge a serious French social divide?

The Luma Foundation’s gleaming Gehry-designed arts centre towers over a French city struggling with debt, drugs and poverty – so who really benefits from the city’s resurgence?

The Guardian - UK

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Kerala to become first State without extreme poverty: Minister

The Hindu

Oxfam workers in UK to hold strike ballot over ‘poverty pay’

Survey found 8% of charity’s employees had used food banks in the last year and 22% had been unable to pay rent

The Guardian - UK

337 families rescued from severe poverty, says Kozhikode Corporation

Kozhikode Corp. rescued 337 people from severe poverty, providing food, health aid, and financial support. Opposition councillors raised concerns over ending existing benefits, but Deputy Mayor and Welfare Standing Committee chair assured benefits would continue.

The Hindu

Poverty inaction hurts Aussie children the most

Alarming statistics reveal the changing face of poverty in Australia

Newcastle Herald

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Oxfam workers set to strike over pay as charity staff rely on food banks to survive

Exclusive: Workers at anti-poverty charity, Oxfam, are balloting for strike action as they use food banks and struggle to pay rent

The Independent UK

UK ‘trying to make sure Israel abides by international law,’ James Cleverly tells Commons – as it happened

Foreign secretary says it is not his role to assess events ‘unfolding as we speak’ as MPs ask questions in Commons on Israel and Gaza conflict

The Guardian - UK

Number of children living in extreme poverty nearly triples in five years

One million children were living in extreme poverty in 2022, according to estimates by a research charity

The Independent UK

The Tories have created a new poverty – one so deep and vicious it requires Victorian vocabulary

‘Destitute’ means a living standard so sparse, it should be consigned to history. It now applies to 4 million in the UK, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

The Guardian - UK

More than 1 million UK children experienced destitution last year, study finds

Severe material hardship no longer a rarity, as study reveals impact of benefit cuts and cost of living crisis

The Guardian - UK

Mammograms are recommended beginning at age 50. Are women getting them?

71.6% of women 50 and older have had a mammogram in the past two years. The biggest gap in screening rates is between insured and uninsured women.

USAFacts

1m children in most extreme poverty as figure almost trebles since 2017 – report

It is often being left to charities to try to plug gaps for people in desperate situations, the report said.

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Evening Standard

Heat pump grants: What are they and how much do they cost?

Grants target fuel poverty and support carbon footprint reduction

The Guardian - UK

High rents and benefit cuts push poorer renters out of UK’s cities, report finds

‘Surburbanisation of poverty’ is changing social fabric of cities and widening gap between rich and poor

The Hindu

In the last 10 years, the decisions that the nation has taken with long-term planning are unprecedented: Modi

PM Modi in Gwalior praised the Scindia family and spoke of the Central Govt's long-term planning in the past 10 years, including 33% reservation for women, abrogation of Article 370, OROP, GST, and banning of triple talaq. He also spoke of poverty eradication, India's space station, and gave students homework…

The Guardian - UK

A Portuguese lesson on free school meals

Letter: Prof Rebecca O’Connell and Prof Julia Brannen on the urgent need for the reform of the UK’s school food policy and funding

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France 24

Questions over 'infertility' treatment: Some French thermal spas claim to offer a cure

We report on an investigation into French thermal spas who claim to treat infertility in women. This despite no medical proof that the procedure called vaginal irrigation, is indeed effective. Also the dark side of microfinancing... and how millions of Indian women are now facing spiraling debt from a system…

Capital & Main

U.S. Undoes Progress on Child Poverty as Spending Cuts Take Priority

The end of pandemic relief programs is returning millions of children to poverty.

USAFacts

More than half a million US households live with plumbing poverty

Census data shows plumbing poverty — the lack of access to running water and/or an indoor bath or shower — heavily impacts native populations.

The Conversation

Amid the escalation of the Israel-Hamas war, observers in the region and internationally continue to make assumptions about Gazan public support for Hamas.

The Guardian - UK

‘Vaca Muerta was the future’: Argentina goes all in on fracking

It promised wealth and energy self-sufficiency but Vaca Muerta’s vast shale fields have left locals in poverty, harm the environment and stall progress on renewables, critics say

The Independent UK

Families with children most likely to suffer cost-of-living hardship – study

The Chancellor has been called on to address a ‘cost-of-children crisis’ in the forthcoming autumn statement as research highlights family struggles.

The Conversation

Why heating your home this winter may be even harder than last year

Domestic energy prices more than doubled during 2022 compared with the year before. This meant that the number of UK households in fuel poverty who could not afford to heat their homes to a safe level rose from 4.5 million to 7.3 million.

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