Sentences with phrase «people have no safety net»

Unions support people in need by lobbying government on Employment Insurance, public pension plans, and welfare to ensure that all people have a safety net underneath them.

Not exact matches

We didn't have the social safety net to keep people from falling into despair, and we didn't have the mechanisms to help people retool.

By 2026, 22 million fewer Americans would have health coverage and enrollment in the Medicaid safety net program for the poor «would fall by about 16 percent and an estimated 49 million people would be uninsured, compared with 28 million who would lack insurance that year under current law.»

Most people do not receive formal education on these strategies, but those who actively seek to learn about have great potential to cash in and build their own safety nets.

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.

The Jacobses anticipate critics will observe that life isn't so good for unemployed textile workers in the United States, but argue that they are providing jobs for people without a safety net who would otherwise be much worse off.

People with exceptional resilience typically have a big safety net — many loved ones and friends to turn to when times get tough.

I have fully cut off my safety net and will NOT do other people's PR.

The implosion of our entitlement safety nets has more to do with the demographic crisis — too many old people and not enough young ones — and uneven and uncertain economic growth (which has lots of causes).

Only a self - destructive person would vote for someone who plans to remove the safety net, legislate against women, and whose party has done everything it could to suppress the vote.

We have secured safer conditions for working people and a meaningful social safety net for the most disadvantaged among us.

A call to abolish food banks completely was rejected by the report though: «We know that such a cry is based on the affront people feel for their fellow citizens who have to use food banks as a crucial safety net.

The problem is people would rather leach off everyone else, because they have that government safety net.

The drugs are still there, and people are still using them just as much if not more than before, but the safety net that offered some hope of harm reduction has been torched in the name of prohibition.

If it is a real safety net, then clearly it's principally for people who have no other means of support, or who have fallen on hard times.

«Although the tough economic climate is taking its toll on us here in the UK, its impact is being particularly deeply felt by millions of vulnerable people in developing countries, who don't have a safety net to fall back on.

«Insurers want to make sure that every home has access to affordable insurance, should the worst happen, and we're concerned that those people most at risk will lose out unless the government considers a safety net.

«Local authorities should have a new duty to prevent all people from becoming homeless including a responsibility to provide temporary accommodation for all who need it, not just those who meet the current stringent statutory criteria - a genuine safety net for all

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.

The proposed cuts in Medicaid, the health insurance program for low - income and disabled people, would shift $ 4.5 billion in costs from the federal government to New York, its counties and safety net hospitals.

It may also encourage entrepreneurism, by giving people the confidence to start a business, safe in the knowledge they have a safety net if things go pear - shaped.

Taking away the safety net that stands between some young people and the streets would be utterly indefensible.

Surveying the assembled elected officials, Mulgrew said, «I am proud to work with the people in this room to preserve New York's public education system and the supports and safety net that New York has created.»

This can help to serve as a kind of outlet or safety net, especially when you don't really have people in your daily life with whom to share these things.

Gerwig doesn't have money for rent, she claims, yet she has a safety net, and to call her poor, as one character notes, is «offensive to actual poor people.»

As Associate Professor Vanessa Fong reveals in her ongoing study of China's singletons, as they are often called, this group of young people have unintentionally become the nation's social safety net.

I'd imagine most people like having a safety net that you can at least choose on or off, seems obvious to me, keeps everyone happy, so what's the thinking behind this?

VW fanboys have long hammered Volkswagen over the fact that you can't turn off the electronic safety nets in the Golf R (or the GTI), but the reality is people still lined up to buy the hot hatch.

When the economy took a fall, many people who lost their jobs, did not have a safety net.

For instance, many people purchase life insurance when they get married or have children to ensure their surviving loved ones have a financial safety net.

These people may believe they have a safety net to fall back on in bankruptcy, possibly causing them to not take their student loan repayment seriously.

Another aspect of the IDR program that most people are ignoring is the «safety net these plans provide to people» who would otherwise be slammed with higher monthly student loan payments.

For whatever reason, a Welsh terrier or its people has WTCARES for safety net when needed.

Animal rescuers and shelter volunteers are compassionate people who open their hearts and homes to provide a safety - net for animals others may have abandoned and whom our dysfunctional shelters betray even further by killing.

I've been backpacking solo since my teens and every single one of these tips resonates... I would also add: - don't act as though you're alone - I usually wear a wedding band and tell people my «husband» is over there in the next street / village / town - ignore untoward comments - the best encouragement you can give men is to say no or to ask them to leave - in many cultures this is actually seen as encouragement - don't accept medicine or drugs from strangers, and always keep your eye on your drink - keep your valuables in a money belt, not in a backpack (I learned this one the hard way)- above all, be alertand know your environment - the best safety net is to do your research properly before you travel and find out as much as you can about the culture's attitudes in general, and towards women in particular

There are some people who want to travel but do not have the safety net of help from parents.

At the individual, corporate, and national level, there are Safety Nets that have been instituted that allow people who have run out of monetary budget to maintain a modest semblance of a «normal» lifestyle.

So it's welcome to have the Low Commission shining much - needed light on the impact of the LASPO cuts on those largely poor and vulnerable people who up until nine months ago had legal aid as some kind of safety net.

Housing is complex, and this is another area of law where government has essentially out - sourced a social safety net to the people who appear most readily able to provide it — landlords.

It's estimated that direct spending by the federal government would increase by $ 130 million over the next decade, and Medicaid spending would increase by $ 650 million in that same time period thanks to the cost of raising a child and, since many low - income people use Planned Parenthood services, the social safety net costs that would have to be provided.

Life insurance is such an important safety net and I've spent countless hours educating people on how it can be used to make sure you and your family never have to face a financial disaster should there be an unexpected death.

Most people purchase term life insurance to create a «safety net» that would replace their income for their family if they died prematurely.

A young person with student loan debt, or who doesn't have the safety net of parental support to fall back on, isn't likely to choose a freelance «might make $ 30K / year & # lifestyle over a $ 60K / year corporate gig.

This will require more coordination from the county and local agencies, while ensuring that those people who might have fallen through the safety net have their mental health needs met by the new programs.3

FQHCs are an essential part of the nation's overall health care safety net, serving 25 million people annually, seven in 10 of whom live at or below the federal poverty level.2 Their role has been expanded by the Affordable Care Act (ACA), which invested billions of new dollars into FQHC infrastructure, driving considerable nationwide growth in the number of sites and their capacity.3 In conjunction with their overall growth, FQHC sites have become increasingly integral to the national publicly funded family planning effort.

I am certainly not an actor, but some herein have thought that I am a very bad actor when it comes down to calling them out with their outrageous attacks on my person from the holier - than - thou safety net of anonymity... which in and of itself is full of holes... assholes.

It is up to those of us who have enough to go deeper, learn more and demand that people be paid fair wages, that corporations who want to sell in the U.S., including our own, pay fair wages around the world and that safety nets be made available for those who are sick or who struggle — including those in this country.