Sentences with phrase «of social safety net»

For each country, the extent and character of the crisis's impact on children has been shaped by the depth of the recession, pre-existing economic conditions, the strength of the social safety net and, most importantly, policy responses.

Although the program is relatively small — MIECHV serves around 160,000 families — it is becoming a critical part of the social safety net for families.

Compared to CHIP, the Maternal, Infant and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program (MIECHV) is small — serving around 160,000 families — but advocates say it's become a critical part of the social safety net for the most vulnerable new moms and children.

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In other parts of our social safety net, such as Employment Insurance, CPP and OHIP, employers pay a fixed rate and therefor have no reason to discourage their workers from exercising their right to access these programs.

With high levels of unemployment, increasing environmental fragility, endless wars, tax breaks for corporations, bailouts for the banks and an erosion of the social safety net that knit communities together, people find a common bond in the social justice movement.

WAP is a small but important piece of the social safety net.

In the long - running debate about when to take Social Security — as early as age 62 or as late as age 70 — the focus has been on timing your claim to get the most money, in total, out of the social safety net.

In urban and low - income districts, the conditions are made worse by the loss of social safety net supports in the community.

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.

It stresses the importance of a social safety net to deal with poverty, support of limited redistribution of wealth along with government regulation to regulate markets in the interests of both consumers and producers.

in paid family leave, it's hard to imagine even a modest expansion of the social safety net happening any time soon.

I'll agree, there is corruption on both sides, but if I had to pick one over the other I would have to choose the one that supports some sort of social safety net for middle and low income workers in America.

Young people also can no longer rely on the luxury of a social safety net — so it's no wonder they stay unemployed for shorter amounts of time or stay in their jobs for longer periods.

The 2012 case took place in the midst of Obama's re-election campaign, when he touted the largest expansion of the social safety net since the advent of Medicare nearly a half - century earlier.

Warren favors tighter regulation of big banks and a bolstering of the social safety net.

It has been on an upward price track for years, in part because the Chinese — compelled by the lack of a social safety net to save rigorously for things like higher education and in case of illness — have few other investing vehicles with which to protect their savings from the ravages of inflation.

This extends to «interference» in the form of social safety nets (particularly those provided by public funding through taxation), which are core to the liberal platform.

Not exact matches

In this segment, Eunice Yoon speaks to famed economist Stephen Roach about the rising power of China's consumer and what the government must do to ensure a strong social safety net.

They provide all of us with a sense of purpose and hope; moral validation that we are needed and part of something bigger than ourselves; comfort that we are not alone and a community is looking out for us; mentorship, guidance and personal development; a safety net; values, cultural norms and accountability; social gatherings, rituals and a way to meet new people; and a way to pass time.

Corruption, social distrust, and the difficulties of navigating life without a basic social safety net all certainly contribute to America's lackluster performance in the happiness stakes.

The heavy spending on social programs succeeded in providing a safety net to keep many people out of poverty, but it has done nothing to spur job creation.

I mean, literally not only have they, as a population, been cut to no social safety net, no social security, yet the Syriza government keeps getting supported, elected in referendums, and they seem to be able to maintain power in spite of these austerity measures.

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.

When TIME's cover story was published, millennials were in the fourth year of the «jobless recovery,» facing high unemployment, mounting debt, and an eroded social safety net.

The first is a fiscal policy that acknowledges the role of the government social safety net in buffering the effects of creative destruction, seeks to provide those services in an efficient, market - oriented fashion, and pays for those services with a simple and transparent tax system.

This book is a must read for those concerned about how technology is disrupting the way we work and eroding the social safety net, and how policy makers should respond to ensure that the growing number of workers in the «gig» economy earn adequate benefits.

The three main areas where my direct advice went unheeded were the following: (1) the need for large - scale financial assistance [29] for Russia, which I deemed (and still deem) to have been essential to molding a political consensus around reforms, and to bolstering the financial situation enough to achieve a modicum of success in the fight against hyperinflation; (2) the need for strong monetary and fiscal policy to achieve a rapid end to inflation [30]; and (3) the urgency of establishing a social safety net [31], especially in health care and pensions, to ensure an adequate social and political base for societal transformation and democratization.

Employment Insurance or EI flies beneath the political radar much of the time, but remains an important and relevant part of the Canadian social safety net.

Our shared values extend from democracy and a respect for the rule of law, to a generous social safety net and universal health care.

Whether citizens accept a diminution of the social compact that provides a cradle - to - grave safety net will undoubtedly affect the pace of reforms.

His policy prescription, an improved social safety net, is actually a valid part of the solution.

Reagan said yes, and conservative leaders like Arthur Brooks («One of the things, in my view, that we get wrong in the free enterprise movement is this war against the social safety net, which is just insane.

The truth is, at some point in life and regardless of income, virtually every American will benefit in some way from a social safety - net program, whether through a social security check, an unemployment benefit or a school lunch.

Building on reporting for his magazine, the author interviewed economists, psychologists and neuroscientists, examined their recent research, and talked to students, teachers and principals to produce this fascinating overview of a new approach with «the potential to change how we raise our children, how we run our schools, and how we construct our social safety net.»

Heckman's thinking informs the book, which includes many examples of failing disadvantaged students who turned things around by acquiring character skills that substituted for the social safety net enjoyed by affluent students.

«But you can turn that fallacy on its head — you're creating a whole different set of social - safety - net problems when you have kids.

This review is a summary of proposed reductions to SNAP and an overview of how other critical nutrition programs and other social safety net programs fare in the president's budget.

Highly open to free trade, relatively few subsidies to businesses, but a high social safety net ensuring that economic efficiency doesn't mean poverty for those caught on the wrong side of technological and social change.

«There are concrete things we can do within a free - market economy to lower the cost of insurance premiums, while preserving a strong social safety net,» Mr. Faso added.

«In his address at the 10th Bola Tinubu Colloquium a week ago, the Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo reported that the Buhari administration has put in place «an audacious Social Investment Programme to the tune of N500 billion, the largest pro-poor programme in our nation's history, and the largest social safety net, at least in Sub-Saharan ASocial Investment Programme to the tune of N500 billion, the largest pro-poor programme in our nation's history, and the largest social safety net, at least in Sub-Saharan Asocial safety net, at least in Sub-Saharan Africa.

«The federal budget is a reflection of our values and priorities and it would be irresponsible and disastrous for Congress to implement budget cuts to SNAP, Medicaid, Social Security, and other social and safety net proSocial Security, and other social and safety net prosocial and safety net programs.

As one of the largest Jewish social safety net programs in the U.S., Met Council is acutely aware that charity alone can not remedy these cuts.

«The programme provides a social safety net that improves the health and education of the poorest and most vulnerable children.

It provides a key safety net of social cohesion in a country increasingly divided into ghettos of class and identity.

Each time I move round Ekiti, I see the pains on the faces of the 25,000 elderly persons who benefited from our social security scheme; 600 people who were employed into the peace corps; 10,000 volunteers who took N10, 000 per month, among others but have been cut off from these safety nets by Fayose.

Another occasion was when I met with the town accountant to review the apportionment of Social Services Safety Net charge backs.

Trump has addressed their needs with promises of trade protection and a well - maintained social safety net.

Elaine Becker, retired Director of Public Health Nursing, Erie County Jim Sampson, CEO, Gateway - Longview Kevin Kumor, CSEA Joan Guarino, former First Deputy Commissioner of Social Services Jeff Pirrone, Supervisor, Oishei Foundation's Mobile Safety - Net Team Dr. Thomas Rosenthal, MD, Chairman, UB Department of Family Medicine Denise Krause, Clinical Professor and Associate Dean for Community Engagement and Alumni Relations, UB School of Social Work Gaen Hooley, NYSNA Belle Walls Montree, Vice President, Behavioral Health Services, Child and Family Services

Most homeless services funded by the Department of Social Services are funded through the Safety Net program, which is seventy - one percent (71 %) local share.