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Afghanistan's depleted dining rugs are a reminder of hunger and loss

As members of the middle class have fallen into poverty in the wake of the Taliban takeover, families are no longer able to serve sumptuous repasts on their traditional dining rugs.

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G20 diplomats face unity headwinds on Ukraine, war's impact

Top diplomats from the richest and largest developing nations are confronting multiple crises as they open talks beset by sharp divisions over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and its impacts on food and energy security, along with climate change, poverty and the lingering effects of the coronavirus pandemic

The Independent UK

Driven into poverty by saving a relative's child

A grandmother took in her daughter's child to save her from the care system but gets no financial help and is now dependent on foodbanks

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Ukraine war helps push 71 million into poverty due to soaring food and oil prices, UN says

The United Nations Development Programme warns the cost of living impact ‘almost without precedent in a generation’

The Independent UK

Inflation plunged 71 million into poverty since Ukraine war

UN Development Programme report finds surge in commodity prices hitting parts of world’s regions hard.

Al Jazeera

Steps to tackle child poverty are set out

New report details work across the Community Planning Partnership to mitigate the effects of poverty.

Daily Record

Inflation Pushed 71M People Into Poverty Since Ukraine War

A staggering 71 million more people around the world are experiencing poverty as a result of soaring food and energy prices that climbed in the weeks following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the United Nations Development Program said in a report Thursday. The UNDP estimates that 51.6 million more people fell…

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Inflation pushed 71M people into poverty since Ukraine war

A staggering 71 million more people around the world are experiencing poverty as a result of soaring food and energy prices that climbed in the weeks following Russia’s war in Ukraine

The Independent UK

Cost-of-living crisis driving 'breathtaking' surge in extreme poverty - UNDP

The global cost-of-living crisis is pushing an additional 71 million people in the world's poorest countries into extreme poverty, a new report published by the U.N. Development Programme (UNDP) on Thursday has warned.

Reuters

New £10m funding programme to provide free activities, childcare and food to help families this summer

The Scottish Government will target the six priority family types at greatest risk of poverty.

Daily Record

Anti-poverty and environment groups demand cost of living and climate pollution solutions

"'The cost of living crisis is hitting the poorest in Ireland the hardest"'

Irish Mirror

SNP must not plug £2.1billion budget 'black hole' with cash for kids in poverty, warns Anas Sarwar

One Scottish Government idea was to stop or delay a planned £5-a-week increase to the Scottish Child Payment, a vital benefit for low income families.

Daily Record

Children in England ‘increasingly worried about impact of cost of living’

The children’s commissioner for England urged MPs to take urgent steps to tackle child poverty

The Guardian - UK

How the tampon shortage is exacerbating period poverty in the US

Tampons have become the latest household product to fall foul of supply chain issues.

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Could new countries be founded – on the internet?

Coinbase’s former chief technology officer wants to use social networks to create states. What doesn’t fit into his vision are things like poverty, illness and ageing

Daily Mirror

Professor Green shares how childhood struggles with poverty have affected him

The rapper is speaking out about his experiences amid the current cost of living crisis, and offers advice on how you can get help with fuel bills

The Guardian - UK

Tory peer says government has made a ‘political football’ out of poverty

Philippa Stroud who heads new commission aimed at tackling hardship says ministers need a long-term plan to help the poor

Daily Record

Leak shows Scottish Government facing £2.1bn 'black hole' this year as SNP accused of 'shocking' recklessness

EXCLUSIVE: The leaked finance presentation shows civil servants suggesting an option to save money would be from the flagship Scottish Child Payment

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Huge majority of the people struggling right now with fuel poverty are disabled people

A huge majority of the people struggling right now with fuel poverty are disabled people - Britain's largest minority group - as the cost of living crisis sky rockets

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on lone parents in poverty: austerity lives on

Editorial: New analysis of the plight of millions of British children should shame ministers into action

The Independent UK

Nearly 1 in 4 women with children in states with anti-abortion ‘trigger’ laws are in poverty

Nine of the 13 states that are moving to outlaw abortion and criminalise care have some of the highest maternal poverty rates in the US

The National (Scotland)

Charity calls for Scottish Child Payment to be doubled

The Scottish Child Payment should be doubled, a charity has said as new findings suggest half of children in one parent families are in relative…

The Hindu

‘Addressing poverty is real nationalism’

Khadri Shamanna Award presented to Gopal Hegde

Daily Mirror

Shocking stats which lay bare the poverty crisis facing disabled people in UK

Charity Mencap said people with learning disabilities are "facing a disproportionate cost of living crisis" and need more support, with working age disabled adults twice as likely to live in poverty

Wales Online

Half of children in single-parent families living in 'relative poverty'

It was double the number of those with two parents

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