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Liverpool shooting shows the devastating impact of gang violence and organised crime on communities

August 22 marked the 15th anniversary of the shooting of 11-year-old Rhys Jones in the Liverpool suburb of Croxteth. In the same week, the people of Liverpool again witnessed the merciless killing of an innocent child, gunned down in her own home. Nine-year-old Olivia Pratt-Korbel has become one more unnecessary…

The Conversation

Central African nations eye pipelines and hubs to end energy poverty

Central African countries signed a deal on Thursday to create a regional oil and gas pipeline network and hub infrastructures which backers say will strengthen energy supply and reduce dependence on imports of refined products.

Reuters

‘Not out of the woods’: Liz Truss plan not enough to save poorest from fuel poverty this winter, say charities

Calls for targeted help for vulnerable, after freeze leaves bills almost double last year’s level

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Cost to hit U.N. sustainability goals rises to $176 trillion - report

The cost of meeting global targets to fight issues such as hunger, poverty and climate change rose 25% to $176 trillion over the last year, with performance on several measures reversing, a report on Thursday said.

Reuters

Tory minister in awkward 8 second silence during TV interview while being grilled on poverty

The new Levelling Up Secretary Simon Clarke appeared on BBC Breakfast this morning where he was grilled by presenter Charlie Stayt on a number of issues including Liz Truss' energy statement later today.

Daily Record

Warm spaces to open in public buildings across Stockport as residents face ‘long and difficult winter’

Fears more residents will be plunged into poverty

Manchester Evening News

The economic challenges facing Liz Truss, in four charts

Topmost in the new prime minister’s in-tray will be energy bills, wholesale gas prices, inflation and fuel poverty

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Rural families will be worst hit by ‘tsunami’ of rising costs, Lib Dems warn

Party says those in rural areas living in fuel poverty will be £450 poorer than their urban counterparts in October.

The Independent UK

New agreement to push action on poverty

The federal government will be pushed to lift the JobSeeker payment and address long-term unemployment by welfare advocates and the peak union body.

AAP

After the Jason Grant furore, women should have final say on their cycles. Period.

The pain of an uninvited guest arriving unannounced and sticking around is a problem anyone can understand. Now imagine that person entered your home, spiked your food with depressants, kicked you in the stomach, causing internal (and external) bleeding – and then told you to go to work tomorrow. That’s…

Evening Standard

Warning 1.3 million Britons will be pushed into poverty even with energy bill freeze

Average household bill set to rise to £3,549 per year from 1 October

The Independent UK

WTO head Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala: how trade can help beat inequality

In a recent study South Africa was identified as ranking first of 164 countries in the World Bank’s global poverty database. Underlying this inequality is its very high rates of unemployment. Professor Dori Posel spoke to World Trade Organisation (WTO) Director General Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala about why trade is important…

The Conversation

How representative is Liz Truss’s cabinet of the UK population?

New PM has appointed a team that is historically inclusive in some regards. But how well does it represent the population it will govern?

The Guardian - UK

Cost of living campaign 'Enough is Enough' set to launch in Glasgow today

Enough is Enough is a campaign set up by trade unions and community organisations to ' push back against the misery forced on millions by rising bills, low wages, food poverty, shoddy housing – and a society run only for a wealthy elite'.

Glasgow Live

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The Guardian - UK

1 million more people in UK face poverty this winter, analysis shows

Thinktank urges government to blunt impact of rising energy prices, as deprivation levels hit 20-year high

Daily Mirror

Cost of living to hurl 1.3million Brits into poverty - even WITH energy bills freeze

The Legatum Institute, whose chief executive is a Tory peer, warned the number of people in poverty will rise from 13.9million in 2019/20 to 15.2million in 2022/23 - and would go much higher if bills are not frozen

The Guardian - UK

We are planning ‘warm banks’ in Birmingham to try to save people abandoned by government

Without national action, fuel poverty will be life-threatening, says the Labour councillor John Cotton

The Conversation

Eliminating cashless debit cards is great, but the government must be careful about what it does next

The Albanese government will keep its election commitment to abolish the cashless debit card. Cashless cards limited the financial autonomy of over 17,000 participants, a disproportionate number of whom are First Nations people.

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More than half of minor league baseball players have voted to unionize

Most minor league players make less than the federal poverty line. The Major League Baseball Players Association has asked MLB to voluntarily recognize the unionizing efforts.

Liverpool Echo

Kim Johnson to challenge Liz Truss over free school meals

The Liverpool Riverside MP will be submitting an amendment to the Schools Bill to introduce universal free school meals

Liverpool Echo

Four famed chefs hosting 'Michelin menu' night to raise money for families 'in the grip of poverty'

The event is taking place at the Hilton Liverpool in aid of Hospitality Action

The National (Scotland)

First Minister to announce cost-of-living help for Scottish children

APPROXIMATELY 400,000 children will be eligible for an anti-poverty benefit increase from November as Nicola Sturgeon sets out a raft of…

Bangkok Post

Free school lunch programmes boosts learning

The world's governments are gearing up for their own big education moment. At the United Nations Transforming Education Summit during Sept 16-19, they have a chance to tackle a global learning crisis that has been amplified by the Covid-19 pandemic and rising levels of child poverty and malnutrition.

Tribune News Service

Liz Truss wins contest to become UK’s next prime minister

LONDON — Liz Truss won the bitter race to succeed Boris Johnson as U.K. prime minister, and will take power with the country facing brutal economic headwinds that threaten to plunge millions of Britons into poverty this winter.

Irish Mirror

Increase welfare and fuel payments to protect Irish households facing huge winter bills, say 42 groups and charities

They have written to government ahead of the 2023 Budget announcement in three weeks

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