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Demands for Liz Truss to scrap 'catastrophic' benefits cap that hits 4,000 Scots families

The Child Poverty Action Group has called on the Prime Minister to get rid of the limit on benefits that pushes families below the breadline.

Daily Record

Fuel poverty 'could become endemic in months' in Liverpool

Energy price cap increase could push more people into poverty

Liverpool Echo

Council promises action over 'shameful' Newcastle child poverty, but rejects school uniform plea

The North East was named as the UK's child poverty capital earlier this year, with Newcastle having the worst deprivation figures in the region

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PM urged to scrap 'truly catastrophic' benefit cap

Child poverty campaigners in new appeal

Wales Online

PM urged to scrap ‘truly catastrophic’ benefit cap

Households whose benefits are capped will be left on average £65 a week worse off from April than they would be without a cap, campaigners said.

The Independent UK

People are ‘robbing’ banks in Lebanon – to take their own money

Lebanon is suffering from an economic crisis since 2019, plunging three-quarters of its population below poverty.

Al Jazeera

Dad's marathon undertaking to help city children living in poverty

James Winters said he's determined "not to miss a day" as families in poverty "can't take a night off"

Liverpool Echo

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The future of old times in India

Near-universal social security pensions would be a good start to a radical expansion of public support for the elderly

The Hindu

Tory councillors try to stop winter poverty talks due to Queen's death

TORY councillors attempted to delay a local authority from discussing poverty in some of Scotland’s most deprived communities as a mark of respect…

The National (Scotland)

US child poverty rate fell by half in 2021, census data shows

The fall from 9.7% in 2020 to 5.2% in 2021 was largely due to enhanced child tax credits provided to low-income families during Covid

The Guardian - US

America's successful war on poverty

Government poverty-reduction programs were decisive.

Axios

Mark Z. Barabak: Is Oregon about to elect an anti-woke, pro-gun independent as governor? Or maybe, gasp, a Republican?

Betsy Johnson is firmly behind the wheel, driving through an urban dystopia of poverty and despair.

Los Angeles Times

Stunning stat: Child poverty hit record low in 2021

The U.S. has one of the highest child poverty rates among advanced nations.

Axios

‘Poverty is going to multiply’: Pakistan’s humanitarian crisis has only just begun

Crikey speaks to Save the Children Pakistan director Muhammad Khuram Gondal about the flooding devastation across the country.

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COVID-aid programs helped to cut childhood poverty by 46%, Census report shows

The number of children in poverty fell by 46% in 2021 compared to the previous year, but poverty among people 65 and older rose 13%, according to a new U.S Census report.

WEKU

Poverty and uninsured rates drop, thanks to pandemic-era policies

Child poverty is at a historic low, according to Census bureau data, and the rate of those without health insurance dropped in 2021. But the good news may be short-lived, as policy measures expire.

The Independent UK

Census: Inequality last year grew, but child poverty dropped

Income inequality in the U.S. increased last year for the first time in more than a decade

Chicago Sun-Times

Bill Gates: Technological innovation needed to help solve hunger

The Microsoft founder is urging world leaders not to give up on the goals they set to reduce hunger and poverty despite huge recent setbacks.

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Manchester Evening News

Number of Manchester children on free school meals rises by 14 pc in 18 months

Manchester's figures are almost double the national average

The Hindu

EWS quota | 103rd amendment was a fraud on Constitution, petitioners tell Supreme Court

During the argument in Supreme Court, lawyer says reservation cannot be implemented as poverty alleviation programme

Glasgow Live

Working Glasgow households being pushed into poverty by soaring inflation

City treasurer says council's ability is limited by power and lack of money

The Conversation

Energy crisis: the UK is still heading for widespread fuel poverty – despite the government’s price cap

Fuel poverty kills thousands of people in the UK each winter. It means being unable to afford to heat a home to a safe and comfortable level, typically when 10% or more of household net income is spent on fuel. It damages our health, wellbeing and educational attainment and makes…

The Hindu

Society for the Rights of Backward Communities demands to declare EWS quota unconstitutional

V. Rathinasabapathy, President of SFRBC, told the presspersons that the Supreme Court in its earlier Orders has said that reservation cannot be interpreted as a poverty alleviation measure.

Reuters

Ukraine seeks to trace thousands of 'orphans' scattered by war

Ukraine says it dismissed nearly 100,000 children from institutional care. With help from U.N. child agency UNICEF, it is still trying to reach some 26,000 of them.

Reuters

Modern slavery on the rise as crises fuel poverty - U.N. report

The number of people forced into modern forms of slavery has risen by a fifth in recent years to around 50 million on any given day amid a surge in poverty and other crises, the U.N. International Labour Organization (ILO) said on Monday.

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