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Free ration eliminates worries about food for 80 crore people: FM Nirmala Sitharaman

Free Ration - Budget 2024: FM Nirmala Sitharaman on February 1 said worries about food have been eliminated through free rations for 80 crore people in the country.

The Hindu

‘Orupidi Nanma’ initiative completes one year

The ‘Orupidi Nanma’ initiative wherein school students play an important role in uplifting families living in extreme poverty has completed one year.

The Hindu

Millions of households in England ‘will still be in fuel poverty by end of decade’

About 3m households affected because of government missing home energy efficiency targets, study finds

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Car insurance: drivers paying monthly ‘face interest charges of more than 30%’

‘Poverty premium’ penalises drivers who cannot pay one-off lump sum, say campaigners

The Guardian - UK

Texas Counties Try to Fight Poverty with Cash

A Harris County poverty relief program intended to put money into needy pockets faces a challenge from a Texas state senator.

Texas Observer

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Reason

Lok Sabha elections | People sound poll bugle for me, says PM Modi in Bulandshahr

Prime Minister Narendra Modi launches development projects in Uttar Pradesh ahead of Lok Sabha elections, emphasizing on reaching all beneficiaries and eradicating poverty.

The Hindu

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Tax change welcomed but groups rue 'missed opportunity'

Welfare groups say the government has missed out on the chance for broader reform, following changes to stage three tax cuts.

AAP

Women And Girls In Gaza Are Using 'Parts Of Tents' To Replace Period Products

With blocks on humanitarian aid deliveries, women and girls in Gaza are witnessing the most severe cases of period poverty.

International Business Times UK

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Reason

Princeton's Matthew Desmond Gets Everything Wrong About Poverty's Root Causes

Desmond's analysis never goes deeper than his facile assertion that "poverty persists because some wish and will it to."

Reason

Escaping poverty has become much harder in past two decades, report says

Six million of the poorest people would need more than double their incomes to move out of hardship, says Joseph Rowntree Foundation

The Guardian - UK

It's about wages, not education

Want to reduce inequality, create opportunity and win back working-class voters? There's an easy solution

Salon

‘No one should have more than €10m’: the author of Limitarianism on why the super-rich need to level down radically

Prof Ingrid Robeyns has spent a decade studying wealth and ethics and says that limits are essential if we want to eradicate poverty and protect social cohesion and the planet

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Congress seeks halt to recruitment in U.P. for jobs in Israel

The minority wing of Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee opposes the government's plan to send workers to Israel, citing unemployment and poverty.

Evening Standard

Anxiety, poverty and undiagnosed special needs fuel spiralling levels of school truancy

More than a fifth of students in England were 'persistently absent' last year

Reason

The World Could Soon Have Its First Trillionaire. Good!

A new report brings remarkable economic illiteracy to its focus on poverty and inequality.

The Hindu

India will be among the world’s top three economies in my next term, PM Modi says in Solapur

Prime Minister Narendra Modi guarantees that India will be among the world's top three economies in his next term.

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The Guardian - UK

Areas of England with poorest health have higher rates of poverty, report finds

Analysis of ONS statistics shows one in four ‘economically inactive’ people live in areas with high levels of poor health

Evening Standard

Almost 5,000 excess deaths last winter caused by cold and damp homes, charities warn

End Fuel Poverty coalition warns that vulnerable people left unable to turn heating on due to cost of energy

Dynamite News

"NITI Aayog is cheerleader of PM Modi..." Congress brushes off poverty data

Congress general secretary in charge of communications, Jairam Ramesh, has taken a swipe at the central government after the report of the NITI Ayog on multidimensional poverty in the country. Read further on Dynamite News:

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Bipartisan lawmakers announce bn tax package to boost families

Learn about the newly announced bipartisan tax package of billion, which includes an expanded child tax credit and temporary business tax breaks. Disco...

International Business Times

Bolivian Toymaker Restores Limbs, Dignity With 3D-printing

As a kid growing up in poverty in rural Bolivia, Roly Mamani built his own toys.

International Business Times UK

Widening Wealth Gap: World's First Trillionaire Predicted in a Decade as the Poor Gets Poorer

The world's billionaires have collectively become £2.6 trillion richer since 2020, growing their wealth at a rate three times faster than inflation.

The Hindu

Sharp decline in multidimensional poverty in Telangana, Niti Aayog data shows

In 2015-16 immediately after Andhra Pradesh was divided, Telangana had 13.18% people who were acutely poor. The residual State of A.P. had 11.77% poor people. The projected data shows a role reversal with Telangana expected to have only 3.76% poor while A.P. will have 4.19% poor.

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