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Lebanon's economic crisis forces soldiers to desert or take on second jobs

Lebanon's economic meltdown has plunged most of the population into poverty. It's now also threatening the country's security. As the currency has plummeted to new lows in recent months, salaries too have fallen, as prices rise. To make ends meet, soldiers are being forced to take on second jobs, or…

France 24

One million people in NSW living in poverty as inequality in Sydney deepens, research shows

New research based on census data indicates another 100,000 people in NSW have slipped into poverty since 2016 — and over half of them are aged over 65.

ABC News

Why are the poor shunned? The reasons are complicated

In a study of 19th century ideas of poverty, the German historian Beate Althammer observes a strange dichotomy. On the one hand, “there existed a deep-rooted tradition of ascribing to the poor a special proximity to God”. As a Hamburg teacher wrote in 1834:

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Calls for ACT govt to expand assistance to middle-income earners

The calls were outlined in submissions to a parliamentary inquiry.

The Canberra Times

Does Ottawa's grocery rebate signal a shift to a broader guaranteed basic income?

The federal government’s latest budget included $2.5 billion towards a grocery rebate, a one-time GST credit available to low-income Canadians to ease the pressures of food price inflation.

The Conversation

Care for Africa founder Diana Butler working on template for sustainable development

Launceston nurse and charity founder Diana Butler is busy taking the model for sustainable development she helped create in Tanzania to the world.

ABC News

Obesity is a symptom of a society that doesn’t care

Letters: John Atkinson says obesity is almost exclusively a disease of poverty, particularly in children, while Kate Halliwell defends the food and drink industries. Plus letters from Fiona Morgan, Julie Box and Alix Dearing

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The Week Unwrapped: Hostage policy, time poverty and squirrels

Olly Mann and The Week delve behind the headlines and debate what really matters from the past seven days. With Holden Frith, Arion McNicoll and Emma Smith.

The Week

The Guardian view on child poverty: progress is being reversed

Editorial: Over a million children are living in poverty as a result of Conservative policies. This can’t continue

The Guardian - UK

Napalm Death's Shane Embury: "Tom Hanks apparently said Napalm Death were s**t after Utopia Banished"

Napalm Death bassist Shane Embury shares stories about fighting racists in Estonia, facing poverty in the Soviet Union and the time Ronnie James Dio made him cry

Metal Hammer

IMF head expects less than 3% global economic growth in 2023

The International Monetary Fund chief is warning that the world economy is expected to grow less than 3% in 2023, down from 3.4% last year, increasing the risk of hunger and poverty globally

The Independent UK

Higher earners in Scotland to pay more tax from today as new laws come into force

With the beginning of the new financial year, the tax changes, which ministers have claimed would raise an extra £129 million in 2023-24, laid out in the budget have come to fruition.

Edinburgh Live

More than 1m children growing up in poverty under two-child benefits limit

Cumulative impact of limit means it could eventually affect about 3m children in UK, study finds

The Guardian - UK

Tories' 'nasty' two-child benefit limit having 'devastating' impact on poorest families

Six years after the controversial policy - one of ex-Chancellor George Osborne's austerity measures - was first rolled out, a Child Poverty Action Group survey shows families struggling to pay food and energy

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Fortune

Injectable weight-loss drugs like Wegovy are having a moment. It’s time that obesity—a ‘chronic disease,’ not a character flaw—does, too

Is obesity hereditary? A choice? Influenced by other factors like poverty and mental illness? And does it even matter?

The Guardian - US

Women can’t afford period products. Talking about it is key to fixing this shame

Period poverty is widespread in the US, and Covid worsened the crisis. Yet it remains ‘shrouded in stigma and shame’

The Guardian - UK

Jeremy Hunt will boast about benefit hikes, but his party knows it’s still not enough to live on

Despite the headline figure of 10.1%, the Conservative approach to welfare is such that they’re still keeping people in poverty, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

Daily Record

New tax band could help lift 20,000 children out of poverty, says think tank

Institute for Public Policy Research think tank urges First Minister to follow through on campaign promises

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Jacinda Ardern says goodbye to parliament: how her politics of kindness fell on unkind times

Jacinda Ardern’s resignation as prime minister in January was a courageous and pragmatic decision for herself, her family and her party. Although many said she’d done a great job as leader, she rightly reminded us that a great leader is “one who knows when it’s time to go”.

Fortune

Infertility affects ‘staggering’ 1 in 6 people globally, WHO says

The organization also said high costs for fertility treatments were a “medical poverty trap.”

Fortune

To make a bigger commitment to diversity, Visa is moving part of its C-Suite to Atlanta

Visa's chief diversity officer is doing double duty, going door-to-door in her efforts to help address Atlanta's persistent poverty and systemic inequity while diversifying the professional ranks of the company.

Daily Record

Renfrewshire school meal costs set to rise for first time in five years

The change - which has been criticised for being implemented during times of "extreme poverty" - will kick in from Monday, April 17.

The Conversation

Children have a basic understanding of poverty – a more equal society means talking to them about it

Rates of child poverty in Aotearoa New Zealand remain stubbornly high, despite the issue being the focus of considerable political attention while Jacinda Ardern was prime minister.

The Guardian - UK

One in six people worldwide affected by infertility, WHO reports

Call for access to treatment to be urgently expanded as studies show ‘infertility does not discriminate’

Chicago Sun-Times

America has yet to learn that racial unity is key to fighting poverty

If you ever forget the logic of King’s strategy, just pull out a $1 bill and turn it over. It’s right there in the Great Seal of the United States: E Pluribus Unum. Out of many, one.

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