Europe, Portugal Tuesday, September 29, 2020
The initiative aims to ensure that all citizens, regardless of their financial or professional situation, are entitled to a minimum subsistence benefit, “without proof of means or obligation to work”. The former PAN deputy says that the measure is even more...
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Global Thursday, September 24, 2020
The Covid-19 pandemic has drawn attention to the future shape and function of our welfare architecture. It has exposed the impacts of decades of privatisation and cuts to public services in market-liberal welfare states, while the more universal Nordic...
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Africa, South Africa Tuesday, September 15, 2020
Some NGO’s want the government to make the Covid-19 emergency relief measures permanent from October, especially the one that allows citizens aged 18-59 to access state assistance for the first time ever, to create a basic income grant. The country had...
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Global Friday, September 11, 2020
Current social protection programs are not enough to stop millions of people falling into poverty during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the UN special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights. Olivier De Schutter, who was appointed in March 2020,...
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America, United States Sunday, August 9, 2020
USDA’s food boxes have faced scrutiny for inefficiencies, widely variable distributor payments, and general confusion. New mapping reveals even more issues.
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Kenya, Africa Thursday, September 10, 2020
Timely government intervention has silently been pumping in more than Kshs 1.5 billion to thousands of economically hard-hit youth in the informal urban settlements monthly, perhaps helping stem a social, economic catastrophe. Unknown to many, the Kazi Mtaani...
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