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What if governments paid everyone a certain amount of money to cover basic needs?
Blazing remnants of the off shore oil rig Deepwater Horizon, off Louisiana, in 2010. The losses produced by polluting companies should cost as ‘negative’ for a country’s growth.
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A new accounting system that goes beyond the capitalist understanding of value is bubbling under and could topple capitalism itself.
Poverty and isolation is leading to nutritional problems for older people.
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Isolated older people living in poverty are suffering from food insecurity.
How biased are people against people claiming welfare?
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New research on implicit attitudes to people who receive benefits shows how pervasive hostility towards them is.
There is hyperbole in the way evidence for welfare drug testing is being presented.
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Most of the evidence drawn on by critics of the trial comes from places that have implemented such programs. So, have they worked?
An increase in the Newstart Allowance of well in excess of $50 a week is urgently needed.
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The minimum wage may be adequate for some low-paid workers – but this is clearly not the case for the woefully inadequate Newstart Allowance.
When President Bill Cllinton officially ended welfare as we knew it, he was flanked by women who had received Aid to Families with Dependent Children.
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Trump’s rationale for cutting the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families program rests on a myth at odds with contemporary data.
Relatively few low-income Americans are getting welfare payments these days.
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Misleading stereotypes help explain why the share of families living in poverty who benefit from a core assistance program has plummeted – and why Trump wants new cuts.
Costs of transportation and accessibility are just two factors that increase cost of living for persons with disabilities.
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Depending on where you live, having a disability can cost thousands of additional dollars per year. Government programs often don’t account for that.
About 13 percent of American households have low or very low food security.
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Food assistance – like SNAP benefits – can have far-ranging impacts on a person’s health and well-being.
Social Services Minister Christian Porter in Question Time.
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Christian Porter said Australia’s welfare system ‘was costing over 100% of all income tax raised’ under Labor after the GFC, and that it’s ‘around 80%’ under the Coalition. Is that true?
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Social Services Minister Christian Porter told Q&A that ‘rates of drug use amongst unemployed are 2.5 times higher than amongst employed people’. Is that correct?
Oh, the regret.
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One policy above all others will haunt the Tory election campaign to the bitter end.
Schools can offer their pupils valuable support systems even if they’re short on resources.
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Schools that have supportive strategies in place can offer buffers. They can promote positive outcomes – for pupils and teachers.
Urine samples can pick up some types of illicit drugs but can’t say whether that drug use affects someone’s ability to look for work.
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The proposal to drug test welfare recipients needs to be fine-tuned otherwise the government will be targetting the wrong people and be tied up in legal challenges.
Five thousand people on Newstart or Youth Allowance may be targeted for a drug test trial.
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The government’s proposed drug test trial shows how data profiling and surveillance targets the poor.
There are new requirements for various welfare payment recipients in the latest federal budget.
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The government is reinforcing the dichotomy between “them” and “us” with this budget’s welfare changes, but it lacks solid evidence of effectiveness.
The Australian Federal Police will receive $321.4 million over four years for a range of measures.
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The Conversation’s political experts react to the 2017-18 budget’s key measures in the areas of welfare, foreign aid, defence spending and more.
All of the increase in spending on social security and welfare is due to the introduction of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS).
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If you look at past budgets, the proposed cuts in social security programs are disproportionate to the amount the government spends.
Doctors, landlords and now employers are expected to check immigration status.
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Border control no longer stops at the border.