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South Africa deploys 3,500 police and braces for protests ahead of G20 summit

Demonstrations are expected from anti-capitalists, climate activists, women's rights campaigners and anti-migrant groups, some of which are raising South Africa's own problems with poverty and inequality.

Euronews

Reeves should put wealth tax on the budget table

Letter: Tom Burgess of Taxpayers Against Poverty says the public and a significant number of Labour MPs are in favour of such a tax

The Guardian - UK

Ok, Your Poverty is Your Parents’ Fault – Now What Are You Going To Do About It?

One of many interesting revelations revealed to me in my Rich Habits Study was the importance of parenting with respect to your adult financial circumstances....

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One million pushed to brink amid child poverty crisis

Advocates are renewing calls for Australia to adopt a nationally-agreed definition of child poverty, as concerning data shows almost one million are struggling.

AAP

Robert Kiyosaki Says He Doesn't 'Believe In Giving Poor People Money.' Instead, He Urges Them To Buy Silver

“Rich Dad Poor Dad,” author Robert Kiyosaki has once again sparked conversation online with unrestrained financial advice aimed at those struggling with poverty. In a recent post on X, he said, “While I feel for poor people … I do not believe in giving poor people money.”

Benzinga

Is there a strong economic case for dropping the two-child benefits cap? This is what the evidence tells us

As she carefully prepares the UK’s reaction to her second budget the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, has now hinted that she may be ready to scrap the two-child benefits cap.

The Conversation

Getting the story: How an AP reporter chronicled a sensitive story about school and eviction

AP reporter Bianca Vázquez Toness has heard teachers worry that the most pernicious challenges their students face, like poverty or housing insecurity, are beyond the realm of what schools can fix

The Independent UK

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‘We’re proud to be pioneers’: inside Spain’s community energy revolution

From Taradell to Galicia, cooperatives are supplying cheap, clean electricity to homes and helping tackle fuel poverty

The Guardian - UK

Experts discover a link between how much money you make and dementia risk

More than 7 million Americans living with dementia — a number expected to double by 2060

The Independent UK

Community health centers provide care for 1 in 10 Americans, but funding cuts threaten their survival

Affordable health care was the primary point of contention in the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, which hit 43 days on Nov. 12, 2025.

The Conversation

Over 100 groups call for Labour to fully scrap two child benefit cap: ‘Do the right thing’

‘Abolishing the two-child limit in full will set millions of children’s lives on a path to a brighter future’, major organisations say

The Independent UK

Millionaires group urge Reeves to introduce wealth tax to ‘lift kids of out poverty’

This appeal comes ahead of Reeves’s upcoming Budget announcement in Westminster later this month

The Independent UK

Racism returning to UK politics – and people are very scared, says Starmer

PM attacks ‘toxic division of Reform’ and gives strongest signal yet that two-child benefit cap will be lifted

The Guardian - UK

Two-child benefit cap will be lifted in the Budget, hints PM Keir Starmer

‘You won't have to wait much longer to see what the measures are (to tackle child poverty)’ - Sir Keir Starmer

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The Independent UK

Keir Starmer hints he could scrap two-child benefit cap in Budget

The prime minister said his government will be ‘taking a number of measures’ to tackle child poverty

Evening Standard

Starmer hints two-child benefit cap could be axed in Budget

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said he was ‘personally committed to driving down child poverty’.

International Business Times UK

Rachel Reeves Aims to Remove Two-Child Cap — Is It Fair to UK Taxpayers or a Lifeline for Large Asylum Families?

Rachel Reeves plans to scrap the two-child benefit cap, sparking debate over fairness, cost to taxpayers and its impact on child poverty in the UK.

The Guardian - UK

Rachel Reeves signals plan to remove two-child benefit cap in budget

Chancellor understood to be preparing to fully reverse measure, which would cost over £3bn but could lift 350,000 children out of poverty

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The Independent UK

Rachel Reeves hints at lifting two-child benefit cap at Budget

The chancellor said it was important not to let the ‘costs to our economy in allowing child poverty to go unchecked’

The Guardian - UK

Putin ally who declared poverty had £217m of property, UK judge finds

Estate of former Russian senator Vladimir Sloutsker, who died in September, ordered to pay £25m to his ex-wife

The Guardian - UK

Bad Bridgets podcast about crime among Irish women in US inspires film

Margot Robbie’s company to make movie based on Northern Ireland academics’ stories of poverty and prison

Newslaundry

South Central 50: Kerala ends extreme poverty, Zohran Mamdani’s win

Kerala has announced that it has “eradicated extreme poverty”, a claim that has drawn admiration, scepticism and everything in between. On South Central, hosts Dhanya Rajendran and Anisha Sheth speak to IAS officer Anupama TV, Special Secretary of the Local Self Government Department, and Professor Freddy Thomas from Bengaluru’s Christ…

The Guardian - UK

I wish we could ignore Bill Gates on the climate crisis. But he’s a billionaire, so we can’t

Money talks – and his essay denouncing ‘near-term emissions goals’ at Cop30 mostly argues the case for letting the ultra-rich off the hook

The Guardian - UK

Cutting home insulation funding will imperil UK’s climate goals, Reeves told

Energy firms and charities urge chancellor to avoid short-term fix that could also harm low-income households

Evening Standard

Take some green levies, not VAT, off bills to cut energy costs, Treasury urged

A package of measures could take £178 a year off bills and more than three times that amount for households renting draughty homes, think tank says.

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