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Baboon bonds: new study reveals that friendships make up for a bad start in life

Childhoods can predict a great deal about how adult lives might play out. For instance, research has shown that people whose childhoods involve poverty, abuse and neglect have poorer health and shorter lives than those who have happy, stable childhoods.

The Conversation

“Why is this Government making it so hard for our kids?” asks Newcastle MP

Chi Onwurah cited a range of statistics that show the impact of child poverty in her Newcastle Central constituency

Chronicle Live

Michelle Collins leads celebrities backing campaign to help disadvantaged children get free sun cream

30,000 bottles of HPF lotion will be handed out via London food and beauty banks for children on free school meals to use over the summer holidays through the Sun Poverty campaign

Evening Standard

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The Felix Project and Canary Wharf team up to tackle food poverty

The two organisations aim to help tackle food poverty that sees an estimated 400,000 children in the capital going to bed without eating a proper meal

Evening Standard

Keir Starmer and Angela Rayner are ‘Phil and Holly of British politics’, Oliver Dowden claims at first PMQs

Deputy Labour leader Angela Rayner said the Conservatives were ‘stuck in a conveyor belt of crisis’ after 13 years in office during clashes at Prime Minister’s Questions

Evening Standard

Starmer and Rayner are ‘the Phil and Holly of British politics’, Dowden claims

Deputy Labour leader Angela Rayner said the Conservatives were ‘stuck in a conveyor belt of crisis’ after 13 years in office.

The Independent UK

Angela Rayner recalls 'sick feeling' of fear she couldn't pay bills as young mum

In a feisty PMQs exchange, Labour Deputy Leader Angela Rayner, who was a single mum at 16, said the Government was 'taking a wrecking ball' to measures to help kids out of poverty

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Some Vodafone users will see Internet access disappear as network is first to switch off 3G network

Switch-off will affect those with older phones, sparking fears that more people will fall into 'digital poverty' after shutdown

Chronicle Live

NZ is finally making progress on child poverty – but a ‘no frills’ budget puts that at risk

Budget 2023 marks “half-time” for the Labour government’s long-term child poverty targets. It’s an ideal point in the ten-year project to take stock and see what’s worked and what hasn’t.

The Conversation

The Guardian view on the cost of living crisis: Labour needs creative solutions

Editorial: Rather than placing all bets on growth, the party should focus on the public goods and services that sustain our daily lives

The Guardian - UK

Nurses are living in poverty, says RCN chief Pat Cullen

Nurses are to be balloted over the prospect of further strikes after rejecting the Government’s revised pay offer.

The Independent UK

2023 Karnataka Assembly elections | BJP’s failure to tackle unemployment, poverty hit it hard

Nearly 30% of voters said unemployment was the biggest issue this election compared with just 3% in 2018

The Hindu

Babies are dying because of NHS failings, poverty and inequality, charities warn

Maternity services need urgent improvement and investment to meet government target of halving stillbirths and neonatal deaths

The Guardian - UK

Tory politicians 'choosing' not to reduce grim child poverty levels, warns expert

University College London's Professor Sir Michael Marmot said the UK is 'on track to make child poverty worse' - and said the Government could spend more on children in their early year but refused to do so, blaming high taxes

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Reuters

Europe could see record numbers trying to reach its borders this year, agency says

The European Union could see another record number of people seeking to reach its borders this year via irregular crossings, with more migrants driven by poverty and climate change rather than conflict, the EU's Frontex border agency said on Friday.

The Independent UK

Expert accuses politicians of choosing not to reduce child poverty

Professor Sir Michael Marmot accused those in charge of blaming high taxes for inaction.

The Independent UK

US, Spain collaboration on migration looms large as Biden, Sánchez hold talks at White House

President Joe Biden and Spain's Pedro Sánchez are set to hold talks as their countries are collaborating along with Canada to establish migration hubs in Latin America where asylum seekers fleeing poverty and violence in their home countries can go to apply for protection

The Hindu

Guntur MEPMA official suspended, three others face action for diverting ₹1.04 crore SHG funds

The Mission for Elimination of Poverty In Municipal Areas (MEPMA) initiated action against the staff in Guntur who ‘unauthorisedly’ diverted Self-Help Group (SHG) funds to the tune of ₹1 .04 crore

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France 24

Women's reproductive rights: The extraordinary activism of Deja Foxx

Deja Foxx, 23, has just been awarded the Global Citizen Prize for her activism on women's reproductive rights. Deja first came to prominence at just 15 years old, when she challenged a Republican senator in Arizona over the right for women to have free access to birth control pills. Since…

The Guardian - US

The Poverty Paradox: why is there still so much economic hardship in the US?

In a new book, author Mark Rank looks at why one of the world’s wealthiest countries has such a high rate of poverty

Belfast Live

Lisburn & Castlereagh extends period poverty pilot as Department of Education cuts budget

"It is not financially viable for council to use ratepayers money to fill the gap left by the cuts from the Department of Education."

The Guardian - AU

Australia’s increase in welfare payments ‘is just a Band-Aid’, say low-income earners

‘I’m not going to be ungrateful, it will help … But the reality is, people like myself, we’re trapped’

The New Daily

Leaks reveal Greens’ bizarre counter-offer to budget plan

TND understands negotiations over the poverty alleviation package will be kicked off with a proposal from the Greens to amend the budget.

Daily Mirror

Paloma Faith divides fans as she defends Coronation Concert amid poverty crisis

Singer Paloma Faith angered many fans for sharing her support for the King's Coronation Concert amid the UK's cost of living crisis, after she performed at the lavish event

The National (Scotland)

SNP council writes off £32,000 in school meals debt amid poverty crisis

MORE than £32,000 in unpaid school meal fees have been written off by one SNP-controlled council ...

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