Sentences with phrase «on social welfare»

In the Volberg et al. (2001) study, being on social welfare was shown to be a significant risk factor for gambling problems (z = 2.41, p =.05).

Families were defined as welfare dependent if they were currently reliant on a social welfare benefit.

is only payable once in respect of a child and is not payable to a person's spouse / civil partner on another social welfare payment.

Lord Bach's answers to questions were notable for his insistence that government policy is to reduce the amount of criminal legal aid and increase expenditure on social welfare law.

He called the 10 % on social welfare law «outrageous».

«So under my leadership, a Labour government will commission an urgent review of civil legal aid and scrap the unfair system of employment tribunal fees to make sure that everyone can access quality legal advice on social welfare law problems,» he says.

They receive about 20 per cent of Ontario's legal aid expenditure, roughly double that spent on social welfare law by our Legal Services Commission.

We are the biggest secondary school in Bremen with 1350 kids and about one third of the kids live on social welfare.

The aging of society needs new, more cost - effective solutions to improve the life quality of patients and cut the burden that is placed on the social welfare system.

The high economic and social costs of early mental illness compound as children get older; for example, adjustment disorders in childhood are associated with poor school performance and increased reliance on social welfare, Heinmeuller says.

These are very serious issues because they are negative actions that have negative consequences on the social welfare of our people.

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In fact, there already are three grades for the current broadcasting contribution: $ 0 for those who are on social welfare; $ 5,38 for the severely disabled; and $ 17,50 for everyone else.

The fact that poverty remains a serious problem in the United States after the federal government has spent $ 22 trillion dollars on social welfare programs over the past fifty years should have taught us all something about the complex problems of empowering the poor.

Not exact matches

-- Increasing social assistance rates by one per cent for people on disability supports and welfare.

And the politicians in Washington who are working to curtail basic benefits such as health care and food stamps plainly won't consider the value of spending trillions on a new social - welfare scheme.

Nonprofits like Crossroads GPS, classified by the IRS as «social welfare» organizations, are not required to disclose their donors, even if those organizations spend money on political ads.

Instead of spending tax dollars on programs such as welfare, food stamps, Medicare and Social Security for some of the population, give an equal amount to everyone and be done with it.

This procedural tool would allow the chamber to pass certain kinds of legislation which affects the federal budget — including spending on programs like Obamacare, Medicare, Medicaid, welfare, and Social Security — with a simple majority.

For its part, the federal government, from the earliest census in 1790 to the creation of New Deal social welfare programs, has long relied on aggregate as well as individual data to distribute resources and administer benefits.

The original Social Security program was dependent on half the population dying without receiving benefits, We need to eliminate welfare, food stamps, child tax credits, low income tax credits and Medicaid.

They blow it all on bombs, drones, wars, and unsustainable social welfare programs.

Critics of the South Korean adoption program point out that because of the government's reliance on international adoptions, South Korea's social welfare programs for families and orphaned or abandoned children remained under - developed.

The deceleration is likely to result from a reduction in government spending on infrastructure and social welfare to moderate the fiscal deficit, he explains.

Williams joined the Sherwood Foundation in September 2006, where she has developed a diverse portfolio focusing primarily on child welfare, family economic well - being, and social and racial justice.

The deficits can only be reined by a massive political reset and wholesale reneging on the entire social contract, including Medicare, Social Security, public pensions and wesocial contract, including Medicare, Social Security, public pensions and weSocial Security, public pensions and welfare.

At the end of the ten hours, I came in and he made me give him two pennies which was my contribution to the social security and he gave me two one Dollar bills and a long lecture about the evils of Democrats and the welfare state and the lack of self - reliance and it went on and on and on, so I had the right antecedents too.

Cato Institute senior fellow, Michael Tanner heads research into a variety of domestic policies with a particular emphasis on poverty and social welfare policy, health care reform, and Social Secsocial welfare policy, health care reform, and Social SecSocial Security.

One article described the Republicans as having three core goals: reducing taxes on the wealthy, dismantling the social welfare system and freeing corporations from regulatory restraint.

In social policy, the Party is committed to breaking the cycle of poverty by developing a «living wage» policy that is sufficient to allow workers to support their families; make changes to the welfare system to encourage people on social assistance to move beyond poverty, such as allowing some benefits to remain until they are firmly established in the workplace; and reviewing the housing component of Alberta Works social assistance to bring it in line with the current reality of the Alberta housing market.

SEEKING MORE - INCLUSIVE GROWTH By Gordon Platt After strong economic growth in 2011, the six nations of the Gulf Cooperation Council are spreading the wealth by putting a priority on non-oil job creation and social welfare.

Industry leaders from around the globe, including Paige Bailey of Microsoft, Amanda B. Johnson of Dash, Dr. C Mohan of IBM, 16 - year - old «Crypto Price Tracker» app - developer Harshita Arora and many others, will speak on blockchain matters in AI, healthcare, the developing world, small and large enterprise, investing strategies, ICOs and DAICO's, hedge funds, fintech, venture capital, crypto economics, social welfare and industry disruption.

Lim Miller had come to believe that the American social welfare system focused too much on poor people's needs and deficits, while overlooking — and even inhibiting — their strengths.

But when a Muslim woman dedicates herself to that then she's considered oppressed, even though the women who dedicate their life to bringing the welfare of their children have the least family and social problems on this earth.

Ashcroft's bill allows faith - based groups to compete on an equal footing with secular nonprofit organizations for governmental grants to support social - welfare activities, and it explicitly ensures these groups the right to conduct their outreach without compromising their spiritual character.

Hospitals, in particular, were mission products, as were a wider range of health - care, and social - service institutions, In many — perhaps most — of the developing nations, the missions provided the base on which national programs aimed at social welfare have been built.

Jesus clearly put the emphasis on seeking the welfare of others rather than upon the lowly social status of the slave.

This is especially so given that the answer to the problem lies in re-examining and applying Catholic social teaching on the welfare state and Catholic teaching on marriage and family life.

The IME and WB insist on reducing the role of the State in economic life and in public social welfare.

The result is that America is a nation deeply divided between people who are concerned about real - life issues — war and peace, social justice, the health and welfare of people — on one hand, and other people who are concerned, instead, about «values,» by which they mean adherence to ancient taboos, dependence on a magical God, enforcing acceptance of ancient creeds, requiring everyone to believe as they do, and finding safety in raw (though often hidden) social and economic power.

From this perspective, the modern assault on sex standards in the name of freedom (more properly called license) presents a major threat to individual and social welfare, for it justifies and confirms sensual satisfaction as the regulating principle of life.

The sense of meaninglessness of life felt in the rich North too, may be mainly due to unemployment, inadequate housing, breakup of family life, drugs, wasteful consumerism... in spite of social welfare measures, or because of long term dependence on them.

question by Sinsinawa Dominican Sister Erica Jordan, who not - so - subtly suggested that Ryan's approach to healthcare reform, tax reform, and welfare reform was in conflict with the Church's social teaching, the very Catholic Speaker replied that he completely agreed with Sister Erica that God is «always on the side of the poor and dispossessed»; the real question was, how do public officials, who are not God, create public policies that empower the poor and dispossessed to be not - poor and not - dispossessed?

Thus on both the social and the individual levels the proposal of a simple transfer of the ethical attitudes of science appears to underestimate the complexity of ethical issues, to idealize the purity of the scientist's motives, and to provide no adequate dynamic for concern about the welfare of others.

• Of the many books and tracts now appearing on how to replace our catastrophic welfare system, a little book edited by James L. Payne is worthy of note, The Befriending Leader: Social Assistance Without Dependency (Lytton Publishing, Sandpoint, Ohio).

i doubt they have much or any of social welfare for them, and more importantly many or most, if not all, monastic orders were actually pretty self - sufficient and all, tending not only to fields and buildings, before land lived righteously on was taken / stolen from them, something which happened at various places.

The family is central to Catholic social teaching, and that is clear from the bishops» statements on taxes, welfare, children, crime, and jobs.

She spoke after Labour, Tory and Green MSPs on Holyrood's Social Security Committee united in June to vote through a series of amendments to the Scottish Government's Child Poverty Bill - including one by Green MSP Alison Johnstone requiring ministers to set out whether they will use new welfare powers to increase child benefit.

All of you who have a «hard on» for America who are still using the medical facilities, food, welfare, education and social structure of this country, go the hell home and watch the face of this country change.

One social scientist recently replied to a flyer on behalf of a political action committee advocating ethically consistent life commitments in political life (embracing protection for the unborn, welfare reform, and nuclear disarmament):