Sentences with phrase «social aid spending»

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Who supported JFK, LBJ, and pushed for Medicare, Medicaid, expansions to social security, Aid for Families with Dependent Children (i.e welfare), opposed military spending, etc..

The big banks, having caused the crisis in the first place and led governments to borrow vast sums to come to their aid, have successfully redefined the resulting fiscal deficits as entailing cuts to public spending and social protection.

Despite this, their detailed tax policies are a net giveaway of 0.1 % of national income, their detailed social security measures would only provide a tenth of the cuts that they have said they want to deliver, and their commitments on aid, the NHS and schools would (relative to a real freeze) increase spending on these areas by 0.3 % of national income.

The $ 77.7 billion spending plan, up 3.6 percent from last year, also includes a spate of new social programs that would aid homeless New Yorkers, spur prison reforms and expand literacy programs in public schools.

They define social welfare as having five components: health care spending; education spending; cash retirement benefits; other government cash transfers such as unemployment insurance and the earned income tax credit (EITC); and non-cash aid such as food stamps and public housing.

A study by researchers at the Yale Global Health Leadership Institute (GHLI) examines links between spending on social services and public health and AIDS deaths in the United States.

For the film, Hogan spent one year traveling to aid organizations in 10 countries, interviewing community members, social entrepreneurs, volunteers, and donor groups.

If retiring teachers spend their last day on the job in a position covered by Social Security, such as janitorial or clerical work, they can get around limitations on federal retirement aid earned through their spouses and really clean up.

While he believes that world leaders can not ignore climate change, Bjorn Lomborg, president of the Copenhagen Consensus Center, says he is concerned that precious resources are too often squandered on ineffective solutions, and that aid money could be spent on better interventions that do the most social good.»

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.

Prior to joining the OPP, Leslie was a Social Worker with the Simcoe County Children's Aid Society, where she spent 9 years as a caseworker.

Bob Ambrogi: There does still seem to be concern from conservative corners in particular something that's been expressed any number of times over the years, the legal aid lawyers spend too much time litigating, political and social causes and not enough time representing those that they're intended to serve, what do you say to critics of the LSC who raised that issue?