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If You’re Broke in These 6 States, You’re Basically Trapped There

Being broke is never easy, but being broke in some U.S. states is more than just a financial setback. It’s a full-on trap. A quick...

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Voices: Gillian Anderson’s new film is picture-postcard perfect… but it doesn’t show the real Cornwall

COMMENT: The South West is a place of beauty, but also poverty, says Thomas Horn. While ‘The Salt Path’ will no doubt inspire visitors, it won’t even begin to scrape the surface of the county’s real issues

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Push to make period poverty an issue of the past

An Australian charity wants to change the lives of girls living in rural Cambodia by providing access to menstrual education and sanitary products.

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Delaying child poverty plan until autumn budget is ‘right call’, says Brown

Delay has caused anxiety among MPs, but former PM says ministers need time to secure funding for flagship strategy

The Guardian - UK

By delaying its child poverty plan, Labour has a chance to reverse 15 years of inequality

As a former chancellor, I know this challenge can only be met in a budget. But Starmer and Reeves must not waste their chance, says former UK prime minister Gordon Brown

The Guardian - UK

Government ‘not going to rule anything out’ amid benefit cap pressure

The Government has been under pressure to axe the system which restricts certain benefits to the first two children in most households.

Evening Standard

What is the two-child benefit cap? The controversial policy explained as Labour comes under pressure

Campaign groups say that 109 children across the UK are pulled into poverty by the policy every day

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Two-child benefit cap – the cost, effect and what people are saying about it

Organisations working in the sector argue that 109 children across the UK are pulled into poverty by the policy every day.

Evening Standard

I walked across the south of America in a Black Lives Matter shirt — this is what happened

Documentary maker Rob Bliss set out on an epic journey to the Deep South in 2020. Cue the threats

Evening Standard

Ministers ‘considering’ scrapping two-child benefit cap after Farage vows to axe it

Nigel Farage will try and outflank Labour on benefits in a fresh appeal to working people on Tuesday

The Independent UK

Reform UK’s income tax plans ‘to cost up to £80bn’ warns IFS – as it happened

Research institute says costs of plan to exclude those earning less than £20k from the tax will dwarf those of party’s winter fuel and two-child benefit changes

The Guardian - UK

Minister gives strongest sign yet Labour could end two-child benefit limit

Bridget Phillipson says it is party’s ‘moral mission’ to ensure fewer children grow up in poverty

The Guardian - UK

Scrapping two-child benefit cap ‘not off the table’, says Education Secretary

The Government’s child poverty strategy, which was due to be published in the spring, is now set to come out in the autumn.

Evening Standard

A family digs through trash for bits of food, showing Gaza's growing desperation

Before the war, it was rare in Gaza to see anyone searching through garbage for anything, despite widespread poverty

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The Conversation

A 1980s cost-of-living crisis gave Australia a thriving arts program – could we do it again?

The cost-of-living crisis is hitting the arts hard. Artists struggle to survive on poverty wages and audiences are getting priced out.

The Guardian - UK

Watch Labour’s flip-flopping on winter fuel and benefits, and you’ll see who’s really considered important

This is governance by spreadsheet in pursuit of political capital, in which a hungry child or disabled person is merely a statistic, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

The Independent UK

Elon Musk slams SPLC for labelling Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA a ‘hate group’

Southern Poverty Law Center branded ‘scam organization’ by the world’s richest man after listing conservative youth organization with far-right extremists

Evening Standard

Labour pressure to ease welfare squeeze adds to Reeves’ headaches

The Chancellor faces demands to reverse the winter fuel payment cut, axe the two-child benefit limit and limit the scope of welfare reforms.

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The National (Scotland)

Is the UK Government going to 'scrap the two-child benefit cap'?

THE Scottish Government have already pledged to mitigate Westminster’s two-child benefit cap, but UK Labour appears to have got in a muddle over…

The Guardian - UK

UK child poverty taskforce set to recommend return of Sure Start scheme

Despite praise for Sure Start from some in the Labour party, there are also concerns that resuming the service would be difficult and costly

The Guardian - UK

Labour’s botched winter fuel U-turn raises questions over its purpose in power

There is growing unease over the government’s direction – a way to restore confidence would be to scrap the ‘cruel’ two-child limit

The Independent UK

Nigel Farage to back scrapping child benefit cap and restoring winter fuel payment

Nigel Farage, who is attempting to regain control of the narrative after taking a week of holiday while the Commons was sitting, will pile further pressure on the PM over benefits cuts

The Independent UK

AP PHOTOS: South Africa Hillbrow Festival

The streets of Hillbrow, a tough downtown Johannesburg district more famous for its hijacked buildings, poverty and raging crime, came alive on this sunny Saturday morning as hundreds joined in a joyful street parade mixing music, art and performances.

The Independent UK

Flagship child poverty policy delayed by Starmer

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Starmer delays flagship child poverty policy leaving tens of thousands on the brink

Labour prime minister facing calls to scrap the controversial two-child limit, brought in as part of former Conservative chancellor George Osborne’s ‘austerity’ policies

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