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Low income Glasgow families to benefit from £1 million childcare funding

Families on a low income in Glasgow are set to benefit from funded school age-childcare as part of a national plan to tackle child poverty — with other regions set to follow

Glasgow Live

‘The fire of our anger is still burning’: protesters in Iran speak out

Those taking to the streets say Mahsa Amini’s death has ignited a deep unrest that won’t end until the Islamic Republic is overthrown

The Guardian - UK

Four ways to reduce your household energy use – proven by research

A particularly cold September has given us a glimpse of the winter to come. The cold will bite hardest for the 13% of England’s households that are already in fuel poverty. As the energy crisis intensifies, this is expected to rise further.

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'Just transition will have failed if Scots are in fuel poverty', minister says

THE “just transition” away from oil and gas will have failed if Scots are still living in fuel poverty in the years ahead, the Government…

The National (Scotland)

The Standard View: No child should go hungry at school

When you’re hungry, it is difficult to learn. But a special investigation by the Evening Standard and the Independent has found an alarming and growing food crisis among children who live in poverty but are not eligible for free school meals.

Evening Standard

It’s time to face the bitter truth that we must now cut our energy use

There are lots of ways to explain our energy crisis. One is to use an analogy. Imagine a dairy farm serving a distant island’s villages has an outbreak of foot and mouth disease. Half the cows have to be slaughtered. Milk production halves. The milk price doubles. As milk prices…

Evening Standard

Conservative politician had never heard of 'relative poverty'

South Ayrshire Council's depute leader admitted he had never heard the term during a discussion on child poverty.

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‘I feel disgusted society would allow this’: Desperate schoolchildren and parents shoplifting to feed themselves and their families

Special Investigation: Headteachers and youth workers highlight an increasing hunger crisis among families living in poverty but who are not eligible for free school meals

The Independent UK

Stealing to eat: Hunger crisis for children not eligible for free school meals but living in poverty

As the cost of living crisis worsens, some families are being pushed to the limit. David Cohen hears about pupils stealing from school canteens and a mother of three caught with a loaf under her coat

Evening Standard

More than a quarter of Dumfries and Galloway children living in poverty

Audit Scotland has called on the Scottish Government to work "quickly" with partners to address the issue

Daily Record

Dumfries and Galloway public health chief warns food and fuel poverty could lead to more winter deaths

Valerie White expressed “grave concerns” over growing income inequality fuelling excess mortality in low income households

Daily Record

Australia a wealthy country? Only if you forget the poor – and poorest

The cost of living is rising for everyone – but the ‘poverty premium’ means low-income people are paying even more

The Guardian - AU

Liz Truss on verge of major U-turn on real-terms benefits cut

Exclusive: Tory MPs warn PM she would lose vote on increasing benefits only in line with earnings rather than inflation

The Guardian - UK

Cabinet to 'ambush' Liz Truss over benefit cut that'd put 200,000 kids in poverty

The PM is being warned she won't get the cut through as Tories plot with Labour in a civil war - and an ex-Sainsbury's boss warns the crisis is the worst since the 1970s

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The Independent UK

‘Catastrophe’: Warning that benefits cut would plunge 200,000 more children into poverty

Liz Truss urged to abandon plan to fund tax cuts by increasing payments for poorest in line with wages rather than inflation

Wales Online

Change to Universal Credit and DWP benefits increases ‘would push 200,000 children into poverty’

To demand families, children, disabled people and poorer pensioners pay the price for the 'kamikaze budget' is obscene, say Labour

The Independent UK

Raising benefits in line with wages ‘would push 200,000 children into poverty’

Campaigners have warned ministers ‘U-turning on children’s futures cannot be an option’.

Nottingham Post

DWP £900 Winter Fuel Payment - the strict criteria on who is eligible

Millions are expected to fall into fuel poverty

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The Hindu

World Bank has downgraded Indian economy but PM is still resorting to empty slogans, alleges Congress

Ms. Shrinate said rupee has hit a historic low.

Wales Online

Trains and buses should be further subsidised, says Senedd committee

Rail services in Wales already receive massive subsidies but it should go further say Members of the Senedd

The Guardian - UK

The Coral review – urgent parable of poverty and the one percent

Georg Kaiser’s century-old call for a societal reset may not always hit the mark, but it is given an invigorated panache by Collide theatre company

Wales Online

The Welsh, Scottish and Northern Irish governments issue three demands to UK Government

The devolved nations have written an urgent letter to Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng

The Independent UK

Women ‘more anxious about bills and depressed about cost of living’

The crisis is having a disproportionate impact on women’s mental health, the British Psychological Society warned.

Tribune News Service

Editorial: Dallas’ bad plan on guaranteed income

A bad idea by any other name is still a bad idea.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Lebanon Announces First Cholera Case in Almost 30 Years

Lebanon’s health ministry on Thursday announced the crisis-hit country’s first case of cholera in decades. The announcement comes as neighboring war-torn Syria is struggling to contain a cholera outbreak that has spread across the country over the past month. Lebanon began a downward spiral in late 2019 that has plunged…

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