Sentences with phrase «more social safety net»

Canada is far less religious than the US (way more atheists per capita), and yet has fewer abortions per capita, far less gun violence per capita (despite being just as ethnically diverse), is a peacekeeping country, less divorce per capita, has universal health care, more social safety nets, and Canadians are considered much nicer than Americans.

Not exact matches

More investment in education and a social safety net are also required, Gosset says.

And reams of social science research show that strong unions do much more than that: They bolster regional economies, increase democratic participation, and even strengthen the social safety net for non-unionized workers.

So what happens when, in ten years or so, there will be more retired and elderly Chinese than there are Europeans, in a country that has nothing resembling western social safety nets?

In New York, 840,000 children are lifted above the poverty line each year by safety net programs; 597,000 residents were lifted out of poverty by the earned income tax credit and child tax credit from 2011 — 2013; 576,000 low - income households rely on federal rental assistance; 2,968,000 residents received SNAP in FY 2016; and hundreds of thousands more rely on investments in job training, education, and other social services.

At that point I said if she more concerned with spending more on defense and cutting the food stamp program I'll call in and ask her the following: «Mrs. Long, are you for a social safety net?»

The federal government gave the state $ 55 billion in Social Security payments, $ 47 billion for Medicare and more than $ 46 billion for Medicaid and other safety net grants during the 2016 federal fiscal year.

Neither side should switch, because the systems are a function of the population — the Canadian population believes much more in maintaining social safety nets.»

«If we look at countries with stronger social safety nets, you tend to see these effects being more muted,» Ruhm points out.

It's the story of a Newcastle carpenter who's falling between the cracks of the British welfare state, but it's really about something more global: the fraying of the social safety net in our time.

Washington — The Reagan Administration's promise to keep the Head Start program in its «social safety net» was nothing more than a «charade,» according to one Democratic congressman, who joined other members of the House Subcommittee on Human Resources in sharply attacking proposed policy changes for the program during a routine «oversight» hearing last week.

In recent years China has made great strides in rolling out nationwide pension and health - care schemes, but the social safety net is far from adequate, and the leadership will have to do much more with much less time.

I sense this is more common now, certainly for my daughters, but I wonder how true it is for women in poverty or with less education, in America at least where there is no social safety net compared to Europe.

It will not only drive down intake, but also expand the community's social safety net for animals, and leave more room and time for pets in the shelter, all of which will increase lifesaving.

To clarify, the context of the above snip had to do with state spending on education and social safety net programs, but that «you and me» reference covers far more ground than that, considering the Koch brothers» all - in approach to their fossil fuel holdings.

Leaving the safety - net of the government does require me to take the time to get more involved in non-legal social events and within the community.

More research on the effects of welfare policies on children across their developmental stages would help inform policy - makers as they grapple with how to balance budgets and provide a cohesive and comprehensive social safety net for low - income families.