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McConnell "never needed free lunch"

Why have an expanded Child Tax Credit and universal free school meals both been stymied by Republicans in Congress?

Salon

The Guardian view on race and poverty: a worsening divide

Editorial: The disproportionate impact of cost of living rises on ethnic minorities, especially women, must be addressed

The Guardian - UK

Fixing UK’s ‘crazy’ food waste problem vital as poverty rises, says charity leader

Felix Project’s founder calls on industry to help rescue vast sums of edible food still going to landfill

The Independent UK

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More families set to benefit from funded school-age childcare

MORE families are set to benefit from funded school-age childcare as part of a national mission to tackle child poverty.

The National (Scotland)

Judge Fines Lebanese Bank Heist Figure, Issues Travel Ban

A Lebanese judge on Thursday fined and issued a six-month travel ban to a woman who stormed her bank with a fake pistol and took her trapped savings to cover her sister's cancer treatment. Lebanon’s cash-strapped banks have imposed strict limits on withdrawals of foreign currency since 2019, tying up…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Black and minority ethnic people in UK twice as likely to be in ‘deep poverty’

Analysis finds minority ethnic people make up 15% of population but account for 26% of those in deep poverty

The Guardian - UK

LEAP energy could lower your bills if you're on Universal Credit or a low income

More than one in ten households are in fuel poverty and it's only predicted to get worse

Liverpool Echo

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Goal of ending extreme poverty by 2030 out of reach, report says

Effects of COVID and Ukraine war make it unlikely for eradicating extreme poverty by decade’s end, World Bank says.

Al Jazeera

North East groups warn PM against "cruel and avoidable" benefit changes

A wide range of business, education and charity groups have written to the Prime Minister and Chancellor to warn against real-term cuts to benefits

Chronicle Live

The argument that totally takes down Liz Truss' plan to get people off benefits

"If you've broken 12 bones, you're not going to suddenly be more mobile and productive when someone threatens to break a 13th"

Wales Online

World Bank says goal of ending extreme poverty by 2030 unlikely to be met

Reuters

Fleeing Lebanon to escape poverty: At least 100 die in migrant shipwreck

Three years into Lebanon's devastating financial collapse, some 80 percent of the population is now living below the poverty line. The situation is driving more and more people to risk their lives on the open seas. Last month, at least a hundred people drowned when a migrant boat capsized off…

France 24

Millions of Britons ‘unable to afford basics like toothpaste and period products’

Disabled people are disproportionately hit by hygiene poverty, charity says

The Independent UK

Top 10 books about Nigeria

Fiction, poetry and history from an extraordinary country of great wealth and deep poverty, of huge promise and extremes of despair

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Wales Online

Welsh MP says the state can't 'catch' everyone and people should help each other

Robin Millar said the state should be the 'last resort' for helping people deal with the cost of living crisis

The Independent UK

Amnesty: Creditors should provide debt relief to Sri Lanka

Amnesty International has appealed to international creditors to provide debt relief to Sri Lanka to alleviate suffering as its people endure hunger, worsening poverty and shortages of basic supplies

The Hindu

India's support to poor during COVID-19 remarkable, says World Bank president

Other nations should adopt the Indian move of targeted cash transfer instead of broad subsidies, says World Bank President David Malpass

The Guardian - AU

Julia Gillard’s misogyny speech has empowered me – to speak up about her government’s shortcomings

Legislation passed on the day the then PM delivered her slap-down has forced single-mother families into dire poverty

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Liverpool Echo

17% increase in child poverty in Sefton over past five years

A council report released this week looking at Sefton’s approach to tackling child poverty lays out the scale of the problem in the borough

Chicago Sun-Times

Country legend Loretta Lynn dies

The Kentucky coal miner’s daughter, whose frank songs about life and love as a woman in Appalachia pulled her out of poverty and made her a pillar of country music, has died. She was 90.

The Guardian - UK

Loretta Lynn, country singer of love and hardship, dies aged 90

Kentucky-born singer went from poverty and teenage marriage to becoming one of the most celebrated stars of US country

The Guardian - UK

‘You see the lack of compassion’: anger at Tories in fuel-poor Wolverhampton

City 15 miles from Tory conference has England’s highest fuel poverty rate and is setting up warm banks for winter

The Conversation

A basic income grant for South Africa: more money in poor people's pockets, but at a heavy cost

Analyses of the implications of extending income support measures in South Africa, including a basic income grant, have focused on one of three things: how much it will cost, calculations about how much revenue would need to be raised (but without assessing the ripple effects), and how it might affect…

Wales Online

‘Judgemental nastiness’ People tear into MP who questioned levels of poverty because Wetherspoons isn’t empty

'How can we have food poverty when we’ve got an obesity crisis?'

Daily Record

Falkirk Council to focus on helping those in deepening poverty

Kenneth Lawrie says the plan will help the council make tough decisions in the coming five years

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