Vendredi, 3 juin 2022
Refugees increasingly receive money from humanitarian agencies and organizations, instead of food, clothing and other items shipped from afar.
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Vendredi, 27 Août 2021
The sudden and unexpected arrival of the new child tax credit has thrown the future of the traditional welfare program into question. The two share the same goals: eliminating child poverty and many of its miserable consequences. They offer much the...
Mardi, 24 Août 2021
The National Social Assistance Programme (NSAP), launched on 15 August 1995, was aimed at providing benefits to poor income households having elderly members in the family or needing support after the death of a wage earner. The NSAP was formulated to...
Mardi, 24 Août 2021
This week, the Department of Social Protection issued weekly payments valued at €44.2 million to 149,436 people in receipt of the Pandemic Unemployment Payment (PUP). The greatest reduction this week is in the Accommodation and Food Services sector. The...
Lundi, 23 Août 2021
In many societies, women’s choices around education, marriage, employment, and childbearing are severely limited and often prescriptive. Within homes, schools, work, and public places, critical life decisions are underpinned by social and gender norms...
Lundi, 23 Août 2021
The Housing and Urban Development (HUD) says in a new report that advance payments of the expanded child tax credit would increase the average monthly income for families receiving its assistance by almost 38 percent. In an analysis of the...
Vendredi, 20 Août 2021
Many Americans have trouble covering their costs of living with income solely from Social Security. Now, a bill has been reintroduced in Congress aimed at reducing the risk that older Americans, women and people of color will live in poverty despite...
Jeudi, 5 Août 2021
The second wave of COVID-19 brought with it unimaginable grief, agony, and frustration. India saw a sharp increase in the number of deaths, especially among younger people, which meant that many children lost one or both parents. Reports of people...
Mardi, 3 Août 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has thrown the U.S. economy into a nosedive of unprecedented rapidity. Millions of workers have lost their jobs and are unable to work from home. GDP is plummeting, small business owners cannot meet their rent and other...
Mardi, 15 juin 2021
Parents who claim a lack of child care during the summer can no longer qualify for pandemic unemployment benefits. The U.S. Department of Labor announced new guidance on qualification for pandemic unemployment benefits.
