Sentences with phrase «social safety nets by»

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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 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.

According to responses collected by Net Aware — an online guide to social networks and internet safety, set up by NSPCC and O2 — parents, children and the initiative's independent panel suggested Tinder should be used by people who are either 16 or 18 years and older.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Obama intended the prospect of the fiscal cliff's dramatic mandatory cuts in social programs to extort progressive Congressional Democrats into agreeing to inflict severe austerity by voting in favor of what Obama hoped would be massive cuts in social programs and the safety net adopted by the Congressional «super committee» created by the same bipartisan austerity deal that created the «fiscal cliff.»

In New York, 840,000 children are lifted above the poverty line each year by safety net programs; 597,000 residents were lifted out of poverty by the earned income tax credit and child tax credit from 2011 — 2013; 576,000 low - income households rely on federal rental assistance; 2,968,000 residents received SNAP in FY 2016; and hundreds of thousands more rely on investments in job training, education, and other social services.

Addressing social welfare and safety net needs by increasing federal non-defense governmental expenditures to 19 % of GDP

KINGSTON — Ulster County Executive Michael Hein signed legislation on Monday approved by the county legislature that codifies the county's intention to absorb the cost of the state - mandated Safety Net social services program over a three - year period.

«Understanding how social programs work in tandem with one other, and being able to conduct state - by - state comparisons, will help users identify innovative state programs to strengthen the safety net so critical to the neediest among us.»

Says Muthukrishna: «By reducing the risk, a social safety net may stimulate innovation.»

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

Fortunately, the 1965 ESEA was designed taking into consideration both in - school and out - of - school factors and later research by James S. Coleman would prove that an out - of - school safety net of opportunities (social capital) was a factor behind the success of the private Catholic schools that he studied.

Of course, that (relatively) rosy picture could well change if the social safety net is shredded by perverse social policies a la Trumpism; by deliberate government policy initiatives such as those enacted by the Ceausescu government in Romania; or by any degradation of economic and environmental conditions such that your kids become your retirement plan again.

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).

Or do you mean «risk management» in lowercase, by which you mean gambling and hoping you don't have to resort to the social safety net, leeching off your family, getting government bailouts because you're too big to fail, or going bankrupt and leaving your creditors in the lurch?

The tribunal concluded that the impacts felt by the coastal fisherfolk community of Bangladesh is the direct consequence of climate change and resulted in some important recommendations for action, including that the Government of Bangladesh takes immediate measures to reduce vulnerability to the projected impacts of climate change, such financial assistance and a social safety net for the people of climate - impact zones.

The report confirms that the sharing (or gig) economy is extremely precarious — by forcing its participants to accept the status of «independent contractor», they are not employees and as such they are not protected by employment law and do not contribute towards employment insurance and other social safety net programs.

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.

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.

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.

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.

You will be surprised at how happy and well - off you really are, because you are better off than 85 % of the world's population simply by virtue of living in Canada and enjoying its social safety net, health care system etc. and personal income opportunities (other than those income «opportunities» as pursued via gambling; i.e., trying to time the real estate boom / bust cycles).