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Almost 13 million adults now struggling to pay bills, debt charity warns

Cost of living crisis and rising interest rates forcing more people to become ‘trapped in poverty’

The Guardian - UK

Government adviser grew up in poverty and wants to 'shift dial' on social mobility

Alun Francis who grew up in poverty criticised successive governments for failing for decades to grasp the vital role geography plays in social mobility

Daily Mirror

'It's nigh on impossible to argue against free school meals - Labour should be all over it'

'There are more than four million children in this country who grow up in poverty – just shy of a third of all kids, in every class of 30 there are nine - it’s an obscene statistic'

Daily Mirror

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'Our rented home is overrun with rats - we just want somewhere clean to die in peace'

Raija, 70, from Birmingham, has lived in the flat with her 87-year-old husband for 20 years and said they felt trapped - she has claimed the landlord refused to repair their problems, despite the 'appalling' conditions

Daily Mirror

Lowered Ofgem price cap will still leave a quarter in fuel poverty, activists warn

Campaigners say many households may miss out on state help after closure of energy price guarantee

The Guardian - UK

High Court Judge’s intervention helps Bala Sadan inmate get admission in State-run school in Andhra Pradesh

Justice Jyothirmai also helps another inmate join a tailoring course under Mission for Elimination of Poverty in Urban Areas

The Hindu

UN warns that 90% of Syrians are below the poverty line, while millions face cuts in food aid

The U.N. humanitarian chief is warning that the 12-year conflict in Syria has pushed 90% of its population below the poverty line and millions face a 40% cut in emergency food aid in July because the $5.4 billion U.N. humanitarian appeal for Syria – the world’s largest – is only…

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Fifth of West Lothian children living in poverty, with warning the number could rise

Grim reading in new report says that full effects of cost of living crisis have yet to be measured. In some parts of the county almost 50% of children live in impoverished families

Edinburgh Live

Poorest households will need nearly £600 extra to heat homes this winter

Smart energy supplier Utilita has called on the government to ban legacy meters, and provide up to £800 of direct winter energy assistance to the lowest income households

Daily Mirror

‘Food banks are not the answer’: charities search for new way to help UK families

After years of austerity, local pantries are starting to question whether food handouts get people out of poverty

The Guardian - UK

Liverpool schoolkids write to Rishi Sunak to plead for free school meals

"If you don't have a free school meal you might get sleepy and not learn"

Liverpool Echo

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Trump’s lewd talk about daughter Ivanka in front of White House staff recalled in new book

Tribune News Service

Forget being a tech superpower — millions of adults in UK falling behind on digital skills, say House of Lords

The House of Lords is calling on Rishi Sunak to swap AI and coding for a joined-up government strategy on eradicating digital exclusion and digital poverty

Evening Standard

Media hypes Joe's age, ignores issues

There’s precious little discussed about truly consequential issues facing the American people

Salon

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The Philadelphia Inquirer

Why Moms for Liberty was designated an ‘extremist’ group by the Southern Poverty Law Center

PHILADELPHIA — Moms for Liberty calls itself a parent empowerment group. But as the polarizing organization arrives in Philadelphia this week for its annual summit, it’s being identified as something else: an “antigovernment extremist group.”

Daily Mirror

Primary pupils beg Rishi Sunak for free school meals for all to help hungry kids

Youngsters from Monksdown Primary School, in Liverpool, put pen to paper to urge the Prime Minister to change strict eligibility rules that mean kids living in poverty miss out

Evening Standard

Wes Streeting: ‘If you vote Rishi, who are you going to get? Suella, Kemi? Things can get worse than this’

If Labour needed a poster boy for Pride and a bright future, Wes Streeting would be the ideal candidate. Anna van Praagh meets the East End boy done good

The Guardian - UK

From Covid to poverty: why pupil absence in England is rising

Social and economic upheaval since the Covid pandemic has resulted in many more families struggling

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The National (Scotland)

Kellogg's backs Scottish charity appeal to keep children fed

Cereal giant, Kellogg’s is supporting a campaign to raise money for children affected by poverty in Scotland.

Belfast Live

Northern Ireland education cuts will hit poorest young people hardest, report says

Authors say short-term savings “will be dwarfed by the costs of poverty, deprivation, and mental health issues in the longer run"

Bangkok Post

Thailand's inequality remains entrenched

The Thai economy is suffering from widening inequality, with the proportion of poor people still hovering at 6-8% of the total, particularly in the agricultural sector.

Al Jazeera

Fighting for a life: The Afghan refugees finding hope in MMA

Afghan mixed martial arts fighters living abroad try to bridge gap between poverty and glory after Taliban bans sport.

Daily Mirror

1.7 million kids in households struggling to get enough food - with North East worst hit

Analysis also found that 800,000 children were deemed to be living in households with 'very low food security', meaning their family were forced to resort to skipping meals or reduced portion sizes

Manchester Evening News

British children are much shorter than other rich nations - why that's a sign of far more serious problems for Greater Manchester kids

Children in Britain are much shorter than those in other wealthy nations, with a poor national diet being blamed. Helena Vesty reports on why diminishing height is just one small sign of a far more insidious problem hitting Greater Manchester youngsters, especially

The Independent UK

‘Low-income families having to pay thousands more for same goods and services’

New research looked at the poorest third of families whose incomes are approximately £24,000 a year or less.

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