Sentences with phrase «welfare systems which»

But a further, very worrying feature of welfare systems which is shared right across the developed world is that they are «anti-young».
He wanted «a welfare system which is active» «genuinely providing people with a «hand up» not a «hand - out».»
So we are also going to tackle welfare bills, and that is the Conservative approach to fairness — make the rich pay, but also make sure you're tackling welfare, the welfare system which is deeply unfair for working people»
A suitable UHC plan for India has to be a proper mix of contributory and welfare system which emphasizes on expanding coverage to the under privileged rather than capping the affluent.
Many people with mental illness receiving the Disability Support Pension want to work (or work more), but we currently have neither a welfare system which encourages entry into the labour market nor employer attitudes that sufficiently value the contribution people experiencing mental illness can make in well - structured jobs.

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The test, which is to involve 4,000 randomly selected Ontarians, would see the automatic top - up replace Disability and Ontario Works (welfare) payments for those now in the system.
Alan Weil of the Urban Institute, which has studied welfare reform extensively, notes that the system has been slow to acknowledge the evolution of responsibility from helping the nonworking to supporting those who have advanced in the work world, as Myrna's case illustrates.
It is also true that we must work hard to ensure that the laws which govern our own system protect the public health and welfare and provide aid for those who can not make it on their own.
This two - party system is consonant with the democracy of worth, in which both parties aim to serve the welfare of all the people, not to gain special advantage for a segment of the population.
Unless, that is, our essentially middle - class life style is challenged by the poverty and oppression which is the lot of most of humankind, and we confront the hard truth that the issue is not reform of the welfare system, no matter how much that is needed, but the end of a capitalist economic order which increasingly divides the world into those who have and those who have not.
The first article by Schulz and Tonsor provides the reader with a description of the predominant modern swine production system using gestation stalls or crates — a system which many consumer voices have criticized due to animal welfare concerns.
This extensive system of agriculture results in a more natural, welfare - friendly model of farming which has benefits both in terms of carbon emissions and sequestration.
Such sale breaches the Exporter Supply Chain Assurance System (ESCAS), which requires exporters to ensure that «animal handling and slaughter in the importing country conforms to World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) animal welfare recommendations».
Every certified organic dairy farm has an Organic Systems Plan, in which animal welfare regulations are addressed.
Every certified organic farm affiliated with Straus Family Creamery submits an annual Organic Systems Plan in which animal welfare regulations are reviewed.
I have long championed honest food labelling as British farmers, who farm to some of the highest animal welfare standards in the world, need a labelling system which enables people to make an informed choice and support our great British food.»
This might enhance the sense of the welfare state as a system into which we all put in and from which we all take out, rather than a system of stigmatised transfers to the («undeserving») poor.
Of course, this would all require overarching themes to implement, such as a trusting society, adaptable employers and employment opportunities, and a welfare system overhaul the likes of which we've not yet contemplated.
Why are we not able to have a safety net system which enables proper help as opposed to conditional welfare?
That includes an approach which goes beyond the safety net provided by the welfare system to tackle the root causes of child poverty and disadvantage.
The new welfare system, which rolls six existing benefits into one, is being introduced gradually, with about 500,000 people on the new scheme by April.
On the issue of welfare, Labour created an overly complex and expensive tax - credits system which enabled employers to be subsidised by the tax payer when paying low wages.
«I think the current welfare system does need reform and I don't disagree on the principles with which the Government is working, but it can not be at the cost of casting people into destitution,» he added.
I want a state pensions system fit for a 21st century welfare system, which is easy to understand and rewards those who do the right thing and save.
The argument that we need to make our welfare state less generous leads us to an end - point of a system which provides no security, which pays far too little to live on, which traps people in poverty, and which allows costly problems to spiral out of control.
A civilised society should have a system which encourages competition to raise animal welfare standards, not competition to lower them and we should not jeopardise our farming industry simply because of some arbitrary rules set down by the World Trade Organisation (WTO) and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT).
The director of I, Daniel Blake — which depicts a man from Newcastle struggling to cope with Britain's welfare system - collected the BAFTA for Best British Film
In U.S. history, the two most notable efforts to develop religious communities that served much of the role of the welfare state to its members that most developed countries provided through government to its citizens, have been the Roman Catholic Church, which has developed a large parallel education and health care system, and the Church of the Latter Day Saints, which uses tithes to finance a wide variety of services and economic supports for members of the Mormon community.
The foreign secretary has claimed that most migrants have conducted research about which countries have the most generous welfare systems before heading to western Europe.
They may appear to send opposing signals on the popularity of left - wing ideas, but in fact they both reflect a desire for a fairer society: one in which we tolerate neither dodgy companies nor a welfare system that most of us — rightly or wrongly — regard as over-generous.
So Ian Duncan Smith, the new welfare system czar, is going to solve the problem of the dole queues and the # 100b - plus social welfare budget which has defeated successive governments?
I want a Ghana which has a vigorous social welfare system that protects the vulnerable and the disadvantaged.
If younger voters start to see themselves as Labour voters - if this becomes part of their identity - this may override their generational shift in attitudes against generous welfare systems, which some long - view right - wing strategists have been counting on.
Mr Shapps said: «One of the cruelest things about this welfare system, which had developed over decades... is that it traps people who want to work hard and get on in life with no other option but to be trapped into a life on welfare.
Real - estate millionaire Carl Paladino, the somewhat surging Republican gubernatorial primary opponent to the party - backed Rick Lazio, has some interesting ideas about how to reform the welfare system, including an optional program in which welfare recipients would go live in converted prisons while they work for the state.
The welfare state of today is a far cry from what its inventor Beveridge envisaged: a system which would support people in need at times when they most needed it and help return them to self sufficiency.
The child welfare system is more likely to intervene in households in «less neighborly» neighborhoods and in which parents spank their kids, a new study shows.
Over the past two decades, their collaboration has yielded some of the most powerful works in contemporary British cinema, including The Wind That Shakes the Barley (now streaming on the Criterion Channel on FilmStruck in a limited engagement), which chronicles the lives of two brothers during the Irish War of Independence and the Irish Civil War, and last year's Palme d'Or — winning drama I, Daniel Blake, which skewers the brutal bureaucracy of the British welfare system.
According to the LGA, there isn't capacity within the system to withdraw funding and the proposed reduction will «leave councils with little resource to perform their statutory duties», which includes education welfare, school improvement, admissions, exam validation and recruitment.
The ninety - nine cent price of a fast - food hamburger simply doesn't take account of that meal's true cost — to soil, oil, public health, the public purse, etc., costs which are never charged directly to the consumer but, indirectly and invisibly, to the taxpayer (in the form of subsidies), the health care system (in the form of food - borne illnesses and obesity), and the environment (in the form of pollution), not to mention the welfare of the workers in the feedlot and the slaughterhouse and the welfare of the animals themselves.
The Wealthy Boomer reports on a CD Howe Institute brief that says the current system which forces people to liquidate RRSPs and TFSAs before getting benefits such as welfare and disability payments discourages saving.
Frank, honest and heartfelt — the pictures and accompanying words set out to highlight the charity's UK Poverty campaign, which aims to call on the government to encourage more employers to pay the living wage, strengthen the new Universal Credit welfare system and help parents afford to work by providing extra child care support.
Considering the two main channels through which the drought and food crisis affects welfare in Kenya, the document identifies four broad policy changes that can reduce Kenya's future vulnerability to such shocks: (i) investment in people in the arid and semiarid lands; (ii) reform of Kenya's maize policy; (iii) review of the East African Community grain trade policy; and (iv) formulation of a unified social protection system.
There has never been a democratic state which has constructed a system of social welfare and then succumbed to fascism (or communism)... In an extreme version of market utopianism (which Hayek himself opposed) the Vienna School merges with the thinking of Ayn Rand; competition represents the very meaning of life.
«Currently in India, 213 million people are food insecure and over 100 million are reliant on the national food welfare system, which uses huge quantities of wheat,» he said.
For example, fair trade is sold byNGOs as a system which will transform the lives of people in the developing world, but the truth is, again that it only asks people in the West to respond to the guilt they generate, and it barely makes a difference to the lives of the poor; it doesn't create the possibility of mass primary, secondary and tertiary education, it doesn't deliver a system of welfare, it locks people into heavily manual — rather than industrialised — systems of production on a promise that it can not deliver, and it doesn't create civil infrastructure.
In order to protect our planet's climate system and vital natural resources on which human survival and welfare depend, and to ensure that young people's and future generations» fundamental and inalienable human rights are protected, government climate pollution policies must be based on the best available climate science.
Every certified organic farm affiliated with Straus Family Creamery submits an annual Organic Systems Plan in which animal welfare regulations are reviewed.
Every certified organic dairy farm has an Organic Systems Plan, in which animal welfare regulations are addressed.
That changed this week, with the release of a new report by the Ontario Human Rights Commission (OHRC), which provided the results from a 2 - year inquiry into the child welfare system to provide race - based data and data collection practices.
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