There’s a hue and cry about Doug Ford’s scrapping of Ontario’s basic income project. But the project was a failing experiment with a dearth of high-quality data.
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Ontario’s basic income project was deeply flawed and cursed by a lack of quality data. It needs a major overhaul.
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Glues, paints, spray deodorants and fuels are all abused for their psychoactive effects.
A trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, as U.S. President Donald Trump speaks on the television shortly after the opening bell.
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Economists, politicians and the media watch GDP closely. But it isn’t the best way to measure the health of the US economy.
The cash machine doesn’t work for everyone.
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Lots of things have happened in a century, but poverty has proven persistently hard to treat.
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Increasing numbers of parents are being accused of child abuse.
Rob from Harwick, Stockton-on-Tees, where life expectancy is low, spoke to BBC Panorama about health inequalities.
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In a developed country like the UK, why can life expectancy within just a few miles differ by as much as 18 years?
Many South African students prefer universities and neglect technical colleges.
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South Africa needs to improve efforts to increase student numbers at technical colleges.
About 12.7 percent of Americans lived below the poverty line in 2016.
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A White House Council concluded that the war on poverty is “largely over.” But, while poverty among seniors has declined, poverty among adults and children as changed little over the last 40 years.
A single-room occupancy (SRO) hotel in Chinatown in Vancouver, B.C.
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Low-income women suffer evictions and violence in Canada’s most “livable” cities.
Andrés Manuel López Obrador acknowledges his supporters as he arrives to Mexico City’s main square, the Zócalo, on July 1, 2018. The leftist López Obrador won the election and is calling for reconciliation.
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The election of Andrés Manuel López Obrador in Mexico could bring about stable change in a country marked by violence and social polarization.
Child marriages remain a problem in Mauritius.
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Laws in Mauritius allow minors to marry while some cultures on the island are tolerant of child marriage.
South Africa needs to invest more in early childhood development.
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South Africa has made significant progress with some of the sustainable development goal targets. But with others its lagging far behind.
Almost 1,500 immigrant boys, aged 10 to 17, were separated from their parents and brought to stay at Casa Padre in Brownsville, Texas.
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There are strong parallels between the Trump administration’s policy on immigrant families and the 19th century’s ‘New’ Poor Laws of England, whose cruelty was illuminated by writer Charles Dickens.
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Australia’s business-as-usual plan will not be enough to achieve our 2030 Sustainable Development Goals.
The latest World Bank report on South Africa identifies land reform as critical factor of addressing the country’s economic challenges.
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The latest World Bank report on South Africa addresses solutions to the country’s economic challenges.
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Mental distress, addiction, debt, family dysfunction and abuse are all problems to be milked for profit.
A poverty index is revealing new insights about deprivation in South Africa.
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A newish method called the multidimensional poverty index is revealing new insights into the South Africa’s poverty.
Malian migrant Mamoudou Gassama met French president Emmanuel Macron on May 22, 2018. He was officially given French citizenship soon after.
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What is a hero? If President Macron really likes heroes, shouldn’t he revise his idea of what he calls “economic migrants”?
Patience might be running out for South African President Cyril Ramaphosa.
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The positive energy that’s greeted the new South African President, Cyril Ramaphosa, will turn to protest if economic challenges are not addressed quickly.
An American suburb.
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Poverty rates across the suburban landscape have increased by 50 percent since 1990. This suburbanization of poverty is one of the most important demographic trends of the last 50 years.