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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

Daily Mirror

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…

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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

Daily Mirror

‘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’

The Guardian - AU

'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

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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”…

The National (Scotland)

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.

Reason

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

Leeds Live

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

Wales Online

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

Daily Record

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

The Guardian - UK

Growing number of children experiencing food poverty, new study shows

21% of the children reported not being able to get food they wanted in the last month because there was not enough money available

Wales Online

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The Conversation

Are European welfare systems accessible to foreigners?

Since the “refugee crisis” in 2015 precipitated the rise of the far right in Europe, debates on the impact of migration on welfare states have raged across the continent. It is hardly surprising, therefore, that EU- and non-EU migrants alike still struggle to access welfare benefits in their European countries…

The Guardian - UK

Census says 39% of Muslims live in most deprived areas of England and Wales

Campaigners urge policymakers to act on ‘cycle of poverty’ entrapping generations of British muslims

Daily Mirror

Energy firms accused of using pre-payment meters to 'cut off customers by the back door'

Campaigners from the End Fuel Poverty Coalition have called for an end to pre-payment meters which they say will cause the deaths of several people this winter in the UK

Los Angeles Times

Editorial: Congress can help struggling families by reviving the expanded child tax credit

For a six-month period last year, something life-changing happened for tens of millions of American families: They started receiving automatic monthly payments of as much as $300 per child to use for whatever they needed.

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Tyler Cowen: Fight poverty, not income inequality

Wealth and income inequality have recently gone down in the U.S. and other parts of the West, and the decline has been going on for the better part of the last decade. Yet it is not clear, to me at least, whether this is something to celebrate.

Wales Online

Campaigners call for ban on pre-payment meters installed under court warrants

The End Fuel Poverty Coalition says energy companies may be using them as a 'back-door' way of disconnecting customers who fall into debt

The Guardian - UK

Calls for UK ban on pre-payment meter installations made under court warrants

End Fuel Poverty Coalition fears energy suppliers are using warrants to disconnect poorest ‘by the back door’

ABC News

Northern Territory doctor tells Kumanjayi Walker coronial inquest it is 'impossible' to raise healthy children in remote communities

The coroner investigating the death of Kumanjayi Walker has been told an understanding of the difficulty raising healthy children in the poverty of remote communities is "missing across every profession in the NT".

The Independent UK

Ban pre-payment meter installations through court warrants – campaigners

The End Fuel Poverty Coalition raised concerns that firms were using PPMs ‘as a method of revenue protection’.

The Independent UK

Charity calls for review into scale and severity of child food poverty

London’s child poverty charity, The Childhood Trust, said food banks were playing a crucial role in helping families struggling with food insecurity.

ABC News

Why is JobSeeker going to be reviewed? Will it go up?

Starting next year, the income support payments that millions of Australians rely on will be scrutinised by an expert committee, but the government is making it clear that while it will listen to its advice, it won't necessarily follow it.

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