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Food bank crisis as demand soars and donations plunge

THE empty shelves tell their own bleak story. The few tins still standing only serve to highlight the desperate situation facing the many food banks…

The National (Scotland)

Mum's fight for survival as cost of living crisis leaves family unable to make ends meet

Gemma Carlsson earns £456 a month and gets £665 in Universal Credit, but the cost of living crisis means her £400 a month food bill and her £260 energy bills will go up

Daily Mirror

'Out-of-touch Tories think they have discovered the solution to poverty'

Mark Steel says Conservative Party MPs would tell someone who finds it hard to live on Universal Credit to stop working in a hospital and run Formula 1 racing instead

Daily Mirror

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More children to be pushed into poverty in city-region without government intervention, study says

The research comes as the cost of living crisis continues to hit families across the region.

Manchester Evening News

Iain Duncan Smith calls for benefits to be boosted in line with inflation

The former Tory leader said a raise in benefits would provide a ‘shield’ against the sting of mounting living costs

The Independent UK

Tory peer who helped set up Universal Credit calls for benefits boost

Baroness Philippa Stroud has also called for the £20 uplift to be restored having previously warned that its removal would plunge thousands into poverty

Evening Standard

‘We’ve earned better than this’: voters give their verdict on the Australian election

Poverty, healthcare and regional Australia are on the minds of three voters as the country heads to the polls

The Guardian - AU

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Food banks: an MP claimed there's no massive use for them in the UK – the evidence shows why he's wrong

There is no “massive use for food banks” in the UK, according to Lee Anderson, the Conservative MP for Ashfield. However, figures and evidence from food bank organisations, charities and researchers show that this is simply not the case.

The Conversation

1 in 6 US kids are in families below the poverty line

In the United States, children are more likely to experience poverty than people over 18.

The Conversation

Rheumatic heart disease funding needed to help Indigenous communities

A dramatic increase in funding will be needed to eradicate a disease which stems from poverty in Australia's Indigenous community, according to a leading paedeatrician.

ABC News

Go for universal basic income, says EAC-commissioned study

NEW DELHI: The government must allocate a bigger percentage of expenditure towards social services and the social sector to make the most-vulnerable population resilient to sudden shocks and stop their descent into poverty, a study commissioned by the economic advisory council (EAC) to the PM has said.

The Times of India

Nobel winner Jose Ramos-Horta sworn in as East Timor president

New president pledges to reduce poverty, improve health services for mothers, children, and restore political stability.

Al Jazeera

Almost one in five people in Ireland living in fuel poverty

The soaring cost of living, and in particular the spiralling energy costs for homes, is now seeing 17.5% of people spending more than 10% of their income on energy bills

Irish Mirror

Tory police minister slaps down chief's plea for cops to spare shoplifters stealing to eat

Police Minister Kit Malthouse said poverty 'doesn't cause crime' as he rejected the Chief Inspector of Constabulary's plea for cops to show 'discretion' in the cost-of-living crisis

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Police should use 'discretion' on shoplifters amid cost of living crisis

Andy Cooke, HM chief inspector of constabulary, said petty crime fuelled by the cost-of-living crisis would pose a challenge for policing as more people fall into poverty

Wales Online

Police told they should let some shoplifters off if they are desperate

"I think whenever you see an increase in the cost of living or whenever you see more people dropping into poverty, I think you’ll invariably see a rise in crime."

The Conversation

A budget for the ‘squeezed middle’ – but will it be the political circuit-breaker Labour wants?

One way to make sense of Finance Minister Grant Robertson’s fifth budget speech was to see it as a political performance working on different levels.

The Guardian - AU

Poorest New Zealanders lose out to ‘squeezed middle’ in budget, inequality experts say

Government says child poverty is easing in all areas but those on the ground say the dial has barely shifted in the past five years

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Daily Record

Winter coming with deathly chill as UK taken deep into the valley of poverty

Record View says what has been in terms of austerity in the last decade will have nothing what's to come.

Bangkok Post

Can we still unite to do big things?

When US Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau opened the Bretton Woods Conference almost 80 years ago, he reminded delegates that failures of international cooperation had led to the Great Depression, social division and ultimately war. "Prosperity, like peace, is indivisible," he concluded, "we cannot afford to have it scattered…

Chicago Sun-Times

Cook County launches guaranteed income pilot program; thousands of residents to get $500 a month for 2 years

The Promise Guaranteed Income Pilot is the latest in the U.S. to try out the idea of tackling poverty and racial inequalities by giving residents monthly cash payments. Applications will be taken in the fall for the 3,250 spots.

The Hindu

About five lakh BPL cards axed

Bengaluru

The Guardian - UK

Officers should use discretion over stealing to eat, says police watchdog

New chief inspector of constabulary says crimes of poverty should be ‘dealt with in the best way possible’

The Independent UK

United Nations goals to fight poverty and injustice ‘missing’ from Liz Truss’s aid strategy

The 2015 blueprint – agreed by 195 nations – is meant to be ’fully embedded in planned activity of each department‘

The Walrus

Colonialism Creates Poverty By Design

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