People’s acceptance of poverty is the biggest challenge to eradicating poverty in Yogyakarta and Banten, both on Indonesia’s most populated Java island.
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The Earned Income Tax Credit was established in 1975 to reduce payroll taxes and help with rising prices for low-income families. Today, it could help poor families with housing.
Why do even the rich cheat on their taxes? Roesearch suggests some people may be genetically predisposed to break the rules for their own financial gain.
While politicians ignore calls to raise Newstart, alarming levels of financial stress among private renters, particularly in low-rent outer suburbs, show why current welfare payments are too low.
The processing time for the government’s Funeral Expenses Payment is decreasing, but the costs related to a funeral are still high.
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In South Africa, it is possible to be employed and still poor.
Tax credit refunds are an effective means of ensuring that Canada’s poverty gap, now clearly identified, is addressed for low-income families. So what’s taking so long?
The abandonment of crop farming fields isn’t new. But some researchers say it’s accelerated in the last two decades.
The child support grant, as a policy instrument, cannot work alone in ensuring that young people thrive and succeed.
What should be done to ensure that the SDGs actually change countries’ development trajectories? Here are four practical steps.
The more humans seek happiness, the more it can elude them. In exploring this conundrum, a Nigerian novelist spoke with everyday people in his country, finding the coexistence of hope and deprivation.
In the US, poverty is measured by income level. But that measure misses many other aspects of poverty – like unemployment, poor health and a lack of health insurance.
In many urban poor areas such as slums, programmes by governments and NGOs are established to help families and mitigate malnutrition. But are these effective?
Poaching of African elephants has fallen, but the species is still at risk. Law enforcement and ivory bans help, but tackling poverty is key to stopping poaching at the source.
Poorer countries can now refuse shipments of plastic waste and slow the build-up of pollution on their shores.
The data suggest that boys experience as much disadvantage as girls.
Scholars continue to debate what, exactly, happened to Emmett Till the morning of his murder. But that hasn’t stopped a poor Mississippi community from trying to profit off one version of the story.
As the rich get richer in India, many voters seem willing to overlook their everyday struggles, hoping that the trickle-down effect of a “business friendly” government will help the overall economy.
Canadians should invest in affordable housing. It’s a commitment to lifting the most vulnerable members of our society from the ground up — and lifting our entire country up in the process.
The mere presence of NGOs, no matter their size or aims, inadvertently reduced the legitimacy of local village headmen.
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