More recently, schemes have been complemented by unemployment benefits and by mechanisms to better take inflation into account, without prejudice to the necessary guarantee of a minimum level of assistance. They must still be adapted to facilitate occupational mobility, to promote employment, to ...
The Social Security Administrationsetits 2025 cost-of-living adjustment at 2.5%, the smallest annual COLA hike since 2021. Although inflation has eased from its pandemic-era heights, some advocates for older Americans say the modest bump in Social Security benefits puts U.S. retirees at risk ...
The consequences of destroying forests can be disastrous for humans: the spread of deadly diseases like Ebola are linked to clearing rainforests, while the breakdown of healthy ecosystems upon which half of the global GDP relies is a growing risk to global ...
Social Security benefits are based on an individual’s working record. But social forces tend to contribute to lower retirement, disability and survivor benefits for people of color, noted Hilary Shelton, senior vice president for advocacy and policy at the NAACP. African Americans, in particular,...
“We’re doing these things because we know they help people stay off benefits and help those on benefits get into work faster” Help? Really? On first hearing, this was the socially concerned chancellor, trying to change lives for the better, complete with “reforms” to an obviously indulg...
How the private sector can use Generative AI to bridge the gap to the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. Expand Research Report Accenture Life Trends 2025 Five trends exploring people's lens on the world today. As disruptive breakthroughs evolve digital experiences, people naturally adjust their rela...
Heaviest ever SUVs massively undermine climate benefits of other vehicle improvements, says new GFEI report (globalfueleconomy.org) Amazon region hit by trio of droughts in grim snapshot of the century to come (phys.org) World’s biggest iceberg is on the move | CNN ...
How the private sector can use Generative AI to bridge the gap to the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. Expand Research Report Accenture Life Trends 2025 Five trends exploring people's lens on the world today. As disruptive breakthroughs evolve digital experiences, people naturally adjust their rela...
Having made the temporary choice for carbon-combustion-with-delayed-consequences, the dazzling benefits of easy carbon are drifting away. As Naomi Oreskes says, "the sumptuous carbon banquet is concluding, the waiter is presenting the bill". As with any unfolding traumatic event, survival requires...
and evaluating the potential social, environmental, and economic impacts. Uncertainties in the human dimensions of global change deeply affect the assessment and responses to environmental, climatic, and non-climate impacts on coastal city population growth and communities. We address these uncertainties ...