The lesson to be learned (echoingmy Eighth Theorem of Government) is that nobody should care if some people get richer faster than others get richer. The goal should be better policy so everyone has the chance to rise as far and as fast as possible, given their talents, abilities, and w...
It will be difficult for the Chinese path to socialist modernisation to be seen as a model to be adopted by other countries unless these countries also ground their programmes on a socialist footing. Poverty was not eradicated by cash transfer schemes or by rural medical programmes alone, though...
If we define poverty for students as those eligible for free or reduced lunch programs (a determination based on household income),then more than half – 51% – of public school children are poor. But if we take the more conservativeformula developed in the 1960sbased on food expenses as a...
A lack of employment opportunities pushed the privileged out of the state to the cities, further pushing the marginalized into their homes with needles and pills. Being queer only makes sense to me with this as a backdrop. Constant violence has seemingly queered us all who are “from around ...
Today, that remains the majority view, but the gap has narrowed somewhat, with 60% seeing poverty as mostly permanent and 33% saying it is a temporary condition that people can move into and out of again.The poor divide closely on that question. So do minorities....
This realization should challenge us to identify policy spaces where planning for future global change threats can be integrated. Perspective matters This is not to say that institutional processes, policy and programme operations should stay the same – far from it. An ideal situation is where ...
Hope and Challenge are doing just that. Some of their staff used to battle drug and alcohol addiction; they have now recovered and act as incredible motivation for those still battling their demons. They work tirelessly to bring treatment, vocational training and awareness to those who would ...
But the various surveillance and punishment strategies that both books document can also be seen as part of a larger system of documentation and control, one that extends into the workplace and seeks to punish anyone who tries to challenge the hierarchies there: for example, by organizing a ...
2017, to less than 53 million by 2100, while over the same period, the population in Italy was predicted to plummet from 61 million to 28 million[4]. Countries like these, face the challenge of how to support their older generations as they grow in...
Today, we hear that an extra one million people are now regarded as living in poverty in the UK, including 300,000 children-this from the governments own stats. One strange stat however is that most of these new children who live in poverty come fromworking households.All those benefits cut...