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‘If only they made better life choices’ – how simplistic explanations of poverty and food insecurity miss the mark

The way we perceive poverty, hunger and household food insecurity is shaped by media, government policy, public relations, advertising and personal experience. But one persistent strand is the notion that poverty and food insecurity are the result of poor personal choices and priorities.

The Conversation

UN Chief Warns Global Leaders: The World Is in ‘Great Peril’

Warning that the world is in "great peril," the head of the United Nations says leaders meeting in person for the first time in three years must tackle conflicts and climate catastrophes, increasing poverty and inequality — and address divisions among major powers that have gotten worse since Russia invaded…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Iraq's Mighty River Drying Up

It was the river that is said to have watered the biblical Garden of Eden and helped give birth to civilization itself. But today the Tigris is dying. Human activity and climate change have choked its once mighty flow through Iraq, where -- with its twin river the Euphrates --…

Asharq Al-Awsat

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UN chief warns that world is in ‘great peril’ as leaders arrive for General Assembly

Warning that the world is in “great peril,” the head of the United Nations says leaders meeting in person for the first time in three years must tackle conflicts and climate catastrophes, increasing poverty and inequality — and address divisions among major powers that have gotten worse since Russia invaded…

France 24

Q&A: Amanda Gorman talks UN poem, fame, future presidency

When poet Amanda Gorman was invited to read a newly developed poem at the U.N. General Assembly, the young sensation took a deep look at how societal issues like hunger and poverty have impacted Earth’s preservation

The Independent UK

Minimum wage hike seen reducing poverty in Thailand

Krungthai Compass, a research unit under Krungthai Bank, expects the minimum wage increase to reduce the number of poor workers, improve their income, and broadly support long-term Thai economic growth.

Bangkok Post

The clock is ticking for U.N. goals to end poverty — and it doesn't look promising

Can we end poverty, provide food for all and otherwise make Earth a better place by 2030? By all accounts, the answer is no. So then what's the point of the Sustainable Development Goals?

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Poet Amanda Gorman, K-pop's Blackpink push global goals at U.N.

South Korean pop band Blackpink and American poet Amanda Gorman took to the United Nations stage on Monday to urge action on climate change and other global goals that include achieving gender equality and ending hunger and poverty.

Reuters

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

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

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Liverpool Echo

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

Daily Record

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.

Liverpool Echo

Fuel poverty 'could become endemic in months' in Liverpool

Energy price cap increase could push more people into poverty

Chronicle Live

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

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PM urged to scrap 'truly catastrophic' benefit cap

Child poverty campaigners in new appeal

The Independent UK

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.

Al Jazeera

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.

Liverpool Echo

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"

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

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