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Tom Kerridge issues urgent food warning for 800,000 children

A Liverpool primary school has made a big step to end child poverty

Liverpool Echo

In Jordan Camp, a New Generation of Syrians Born in Exile

Ten years after fleeing war in her native Syria, Hadeel is expecting a third child, brought into a life of poverty and uncertainty at the Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan. The squalid camp, 50 kilometers (30 miles) north of the capital Amman, is home to some 80,000 Syrian refugees, according…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Cost of living crisis 'to cripple NHS' this winter as poverty-related hospital admissions rise

Winter hospital admissions linked to poverty set to soar as the health service faces a surge in flu cases along with the return of covid.

Daily Record

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A testing time for schools to do better

Letter: Helping children achieve higher scores in exams does not do much for most of those living in poverty, writes Simon Gibbs

The Guardian - UK

Global tuberculosis cases increase for the first time in 20 years

Campaigners say diagnoses of TB – ‘the quintessential disease of poverty’ – have risen because of ‘neglect’ and lack of funding

The Guardian - UK

Charity boss named next moderator of the Church of Scotland

THE head of a Christian charity that fights global poverty has been named as the next moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.

The National (Scotland)

Massive learning setbacks show COVID's sweeping toll on kids

The COVID-19 pandemic that shuttered classrooms set back learning in some U.S. school systems by more than a year, with children in high-poverty areas affected the most, according to a district-by-district analysis of test scores shared exclusively with The Associated Press

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Rents almost double in a decade as ESRI report finds homes with disability excluded from measures of poverty

At the same time, the researchers from the ESRI also say that income inequality is at a record low, meaning that the gap between rich and poor is smaller than ever

Irish Mirror

Disempowered, shut off and less able to afford healthy choices – how financial hardship is bad for our health

Australia is facing a cost-of-living crisis. Rising costs of rent, fuel, food and power have increased financial stress for many households.

The Conversation

Fight against poverty has ground to a halt, World Bank warns

The Covid-19 pandemic and Russia's invasion of Ukraine have reversed three decades of progress in reducing poverty, according to the World Bank, which is warning that the global goal of eradicating extreme poverty by 2030 is now out of reach. In its latest report, the Washington-based lender estimates that 70…

France 24

Hygiene poverty affecting 3.2 million Brits amid cost of living crisis

Many people are too embarrassed to leave their homes due to a lack of essential products, new report finds

Evening Standard

Ukrainian refugees living in Falkirk hotel offered free employment training courses

The workshops have been organised by a community group aimed at reducing poverty and unemployment, to help the refugees find jobs in the local area.

Daily Record

Jason Manford reckons he's perfect Children in Need host as he had same experience growing up

The 41-year-old father of six hopes to bring “an awareness” of the struggle many kids in Britain endure when he makes his debut hosting next month’s Children in Need.

Daily Record

‘I’m not very well and I need heat’: at the warm bank in Wolverhampton

Warm spaces open amid cost of living crisis in area with country’s highest rate of fuel poverty

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Mum spent last months 'worrying how to pay for funeral' after being denied state pension

Sarah Beech, who "worked from the minute she left school", was told she wasn't entitled to her state pension shortly before passing away from multiple sclerosis

Belfast Live

Irish singer Mary Black visits The People's Kitchen before sold out show in Belfast

The People's Kitchen has been helping those in poverty in Belfast since 2017

The Guardian - UK

Make poverty discrimination illegal like racism or sexism, official to tell UN

Exclusive: ‘Povertyism’ restricts access to education, housing, employment and social benefits and must be outlawed, says special rapporteur

Bangkok Post

India's crisis a self-inflicted catastrophe

Nearly 80% of the estimated 70 million people around the world who fell into extreme poverty at the onset of Covid-19 in 2020 were from India, a recent World Bank report has revealed. But even this shocking figure could be an underestimation, as the lack of official data makes it…

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Glasgow Live

More cash needed to help East Renfrewshire residents with cost of living crisis

East Renfrewshire's council leader Owen O'Donnell said research into the impact of the crisis on the area was 'scary' as almost 1,000 children could be pushed into poverty.

Manchester Evening News

PM Rishi Sunak could be good news for people on Universal Credit and other DWP benefits

As chancellor, Rishi Sunak pledged to uprate benefits in line with inflation - something Liz Truss would not commit to

Tribune News Service

Abrams offers lots of plans, but she’ll face uphill fight putting them into action

SAVANNAH, Ga. — A wholesale overhaul of how to confront systemic poverty in Georgia. A multipronged plan to combat the scourge of climate change. A set of policy changes to address the state’s growing affordable housing crisis.

The Guardian - UK

The very last thing the UK needs is more ‘grownup’ politics. That’s what got us into this mess

Poverty is stalking the streets of Britain – and that’s the big issue the people in charge continue to duck, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

The Guardian - AU

Studying and working as a sole parent of a young child is hard but it is our ticket out of poverty

I hope to secure full-time employment after finishing my degree, but I worry about the physical and mental health effects of our current situation

The Guardian - UK

Headteachers in tears at stark choice: keep staff or feed hungry pupils

School leaders’ mood turns to despair at funding crisis amid growing poverty

The Guardian - UK

If this chaos does not make us rethink our idea of the good society, whatever will?

Eighty years after the Beveridge report, time to ask again what are the essentials that allow us to thrive

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