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Glasgow families living on £115 below poverty line every week

There are now more than a quarter of children in the city enduring relative poverty

Glasgow Live

Paisley charity boss is tackling food waste and poverty with project called TeaBags

The Star Project initiative provides a family with everything they need to make a healthy meal and helps reduce food waste in the process

Daily Record

Poverty and lack of transportation to reach schools are reasons for dropout among tribal children in Erode: study

The study recommends, monthly incentives for children who return to schools and uniforms and coverage under mid-day meal scheme up to Class 12.

The Hindu

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Calls for poverty-stricken Scots criminals to escape punishment amid cost-of-living crisis

John Holland McKendrick, professor of social justice at Glasgow Caledonian University, hopes the police and prosecutors will go easy on desperate offenders.

Daily Record

Mum and daughter argue over whether to eat or heat their home

Another woman who works full time says she can't even afford to buy a sofa for her home

Liverpool Echo

Child poverty group slams "cruel and catastrophic” benefit cap

The DWP limit on benefits income may mean that 100,000 families will be no better off after long-awaited rise next April says Child Poverty Action Group

Chronicle Live

DWP benefit cap's 'cruel' move set to cut £260 a month from poor

The Child Poverty Action Group has warned of a “growing gulf” between the cap and benefit rates and the cost of living

Liverpool Echo

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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

Chronicle Live

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"

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The Hindu

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 National (Scotland)

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 Guardian - US

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

Axios

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Los Angeles Times

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.

Axios

Stunning stat: Child poverty hit record low in 2021

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

Tribune News Service

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.

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

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