Sentences with phrase «social safety nets»

Yes, other countries handle mortgage interest differently, but they also have different demographics, housing finance systems and social safety nets.

But could that be said for social safety nets, too?

Personally, I am in favour of scrapping most or all of these privatised social safety nets in favour of a guaranteed annual minimum income, though even that will not likely solve the problem of housing by itself.

People and communities experiencing social exclusion, unstable housing, low income, food insecurity, unemployment and poor working conditions, weak social safety nets and lack of access to health, social and legal services are shaped by a wider set of forces: economics, social policies, and politics.

To ensure that climate change doesn't cripple efforts to reduce poverty, the world should invest in resilient infrastructure, adaptation measures and social safety nets, the report authors recommend.

«They have fewer resources and receive less support from family, community, the financial system, and even social safety nets to prevent, cope and adapt,» it noted.

When it comes to managing L&D, many of the practical interventions suggested — insurance, social safety nets, early warning systems — are familiar territory for disaster risk managers.

Micro-financing and other social safety nets and social welfare grants, as a means to enhance adaptation to current and future shocks and stresses, may be successful in overcoming such constraints if supported by local institutional arrangements on a long - term sustainable basis (Ellis, 2003; Chigwada, 2005).

Such revenues can help governments strengthen social safety nets for poor and vulnerable communities and finance the infrastructure needed to provide access to basic services such as water, sanitation, and energy.

Social Security, Medicare, those funds are under tremendous pressure and it's going to be extremely important for the wealthy in this country to step up to make possible these social safety nets for those who didn't have the same opportunities or fell between the cracks.

Beijing should be building social safety nets and recapitalizing its banks, not betting the house on a stock market bubble.»

In high - achieving countries like Finland and Singapore, strong social safety nets ensure that virtually all schools have fewer than 10 % of their students living in poverty.

You have probably also witnessed pensions erode, libraries close, and social safety nets for impoverished families shrink.

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

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

Mounting pension costs, declining tax bases, crumbling infrastructure and a growing number of out - of - work citizens relying on social safety nets meant deep budget deficits and tides of red ink.

Social inequality is highest in countries with the weakest social safety nets - such as the US.

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.

He further stated that this will not only assuage the current pains arising from the new fuel pricing regime, but will provide ongoing social safety nets for over 8 million Nigerians this year alone.

She has steered the organization to advocacy, pressing elected officials to protect and strengthen the federal food stamp program, known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program or SNAP, the school breakfast program at Chicago Public Schools and other key social safety nets.

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.

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?

Even in countries with social safety nets such as government pension plans, many people remain uncertain about how to achieve their retirement goals and dreams — and how to prepare for unexpected post-retirement expenses.

Imposing higher taxes on the wealthy is the best way for countries such as Canada to reinvest in their social safety nets, education, and infrastructure while protecting the middle class.

That requires investments in retraining and lifelong learning as well as social safety nets.

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.

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.

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.

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

At the same time, House Speaker Paul Ryan has also signaled the legislation may be a precursor to larger attempted cuts into America's social safety net — including Medicare and Social Security.

He also called for a stronger social safety net, explicitly framing it as a way to encourage entrepreneurship.

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

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.

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.

As my colleague Jason Kirby detailed in his cover story in March, the Chinese save so much because they don't have a social safety net as we know it to fall back on.

The reward for slower income growth is better for environmental quality and an improved social safety net.

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.

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.

Canada is a country without a national social safety net: the Liberals removed it in 1995, in the same budget where they ended support for social rental housing.

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.

Finally, China's aging population will put increasing pressure to revamp its social safety net — an area where Canada is again a global leader.

This is not the society that Canadians want, yet successive governments have enabled it by dismantling our social safety net, eroding progressive taxation, and introducing policies that weaken unions and hurt working Canadians.

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.

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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.

President Donald Trump unveiled a $ 4.4 trillion budget plan Monday that envisions steep cuts to America's social safety net but mounting spending on the military, formally retreating from last year's promises to balance the federal budget.

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