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‘Sweden has a poverty problem’: the social stores offering food at rock-bottom prices

Rising food and energy prices are being felt across Europe. In the first part of a new series, we look at the impacts on daily life

The Guardian - UK

Displaced Syrians Fear Turkish Threats Spell New Exodus

Syria's grinding conflict has already uprooted Ahmed Yassin and his family several times, but now they fear a threatened Turkish offensive will force them to flee the muddy camp they call home. The 34-year-old, his wife and two children live in Sandaf in Syria's Aleppo province -- just south of…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Thousands of Australian single mothers shoulder cost of living pressures while facing poverty. So what help is out there?

Single parents across various income levels are struggling with the rising costs of living and many risk teetering into poverty.

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Just Stop Oil activists occupy beds in Harrods in protest against fuel poverty

Protesters take to luxury beds and sofas in London store to call for action on ‘sky-rocketing’ energy bills

The Guardian - UK

Harrods comes under siege as protestors hijack bed and sofa displays

Just Stop Oil activists got into a bed and laid on sofas in the Harrods department store, in Knightsbridge, London, before being escorted out by a reported 20 security guards

Daily Mirror

Watch: Protest groups take action across London to highlight fuel poverty

Protest groups have taken coordinated action across London on what they have called the Fuel Poverty Day of Action. Campaigners from the Don’t Pay UK and Fuel Poverty Action groups held what they called a “warm up” at the British Museum and Stratford Westfield on Saturday afternoon. The groups held…

Evening Standard

Protesters occupy Scottish Power HQ over rising energy bills

CAMPAIGNERS have occupied Scottish Power HQ in protest against rising energy bills and “sky-rocketing” levels of fuel poverty, according to…

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Protest groups take action across London to highlight fuel poverty

Don’t Pay UK said campaigners had bedded down with blankets, sleeping bags and hot water bottles in the foyer of Scottish Power HQ

Evening Standard

Glasgow campaigners rallying outside Scottish Power demanding action on fuel poverty

Local campaigners have joined Extinction Rebellion Scotland protestors outside the entrance to Scottish Power HQ to demand government action against rising fuel poverty.

Glasgow Live

The fishers marginalized since apartheid

Small-scale fishers have long suffered discrimination in South Africa

Salon

How one Manchester food bank aims to lift people out of food poverty for good

The Blackley-based food bank go beyond emergency provisions

Manchester Evening News

Belfast fuel poverty scheme criticised for £60,000 income threshold

Councillor said it was "outrageous" that Malone Park residents could be eligible for help

Belfast Live

New West Lothian foodbank centre now facing huge demand for furniture

From charity shop, to food distribution and community outreach West Lothian Foodbank's new Armadale centre is working to support those facing the greatest hardships this winter

Edinburgh Live

GMB viewers fume as energy boss 'pleads poverty' amid crippling cost of living crisis

Good Morning Britain viewers joked they would get their violins out earlier today, as the CEO of Utilita Energy claimed his company is actually losing money in one area amid the cost of living crisis

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Commentary: The child welfare system needs an overhaul

When I graduated from nursing school five years ago, I worked for an agency in New York City’s foster care system. I believed I was helping families. But what I saw there was not a system working for children’s best interests, but one that was quick to separate children from…

Daily Mirror

Dis Life: 'Government needs to change how housing works for disabled people'

Out of the 14 million people living in poverty, 3.5 million are disabled people and another 3.5 million have a disabled person in their household, writes Anna Morell from Disability Rights UK

Daily Mirror

Foodbanks 'deeply worried' about Christmas cost-of-living crisis as winter bites

The Trussell Trust's chief executive Emma Revie used a Christmas carol service to reveal her fears for the coming weeks as financial hardship grips poverty-hit families

The Guardian - AU

‘Demoralising’: life on sub-poverty jobseeker payment laid bare in new report

Without a good chance of finding work, Michelle Jackson said her life was ‘never going to improve’

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Wales Online

'8.4 million households will be in fuel poverty from April'

Campaign group National Energy Action spiralling energy bills will leave one in three households in fuel poverty when the price cap goes up next next year

The National (Scotland)

Action urged as student survey finds high levels of depression and food poverty

A LEADING mental health charity has called on the Scottish Government to provide more support to colleges after a survey found “alarming”…

Reason

A Lame-Duck Congress Should Reject the Extended Child Tax Credit

The policy has some bipartisan support, despite the fact that it has mostly been a failure since its inception.

Leeds Live

Leeds pantry with a weekly subscription fee 'tackling poverty differently'

Vanessa Brown, coordinator of the charity that runs Meanwood Pantry, said they've seen a massive increase in need since October

Wales Online

People getting sicker due to cost-of-living crisis and spending cuts, report BMA

Study suggests the health of the nation is being made worse by poverty, poor housing, a lack of heating and missing meals

Daily Record

Action urged as students suffer high levels of depression and food poverty

Mental health charity demands greater government support after survey shows more than half of all students suffer some form of depression

The Guardian - UK

Losing energy support will mean ‘fuel poverty for more than 7m’ in UK

A new report calls for targeted help for those who will no longer qualify from changes next spring

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