Few middle-class Americans undergoing Chapter 13 bankruptcy blame the government. They portray themselves as hardworking victims and resent others for taking more than their fair share.
Michael Fletcher, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
With unemployment soaring due to COVID-19, why is Jacinda Ardern’s centre-left government significantly less generous towards beneficiaries than Scott Morrison’s centre-right government in Australia?
A child in a poor and isolated village in Rote Island, East Nusa Tenggara.
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Fisca Miswari Aulia, National Development Planning Agency (BAPPENAS); Maliki, National Development Planning Agency (BAPPENAS), and M Niaz Asadullah, University of Malaya
Bappenas conducted a simulation to predict how COVID-19 will impact poverty in Indonesia. Without intervention, the pandemic will drag at least 3.6 million Indonesians into poverty by the end of 2020.
Young children pass the time in their riverside shanty town on the banks of the heavily-polluted Ciliwung River.
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M Niaz Asadullah, University of Malaya; Fisca Miswari Aulia, National Development Planning Agency (BAPPENAS), and Maliki, National Development Planning Agency (BAPPENAS)
COVID19 threatens to reverse years of Indonesia’s positive trends in poverty alleviation. We highlight lessons from past policies to prevent another poverty hike during the pandemic.
Trump addresses the Paycheck Protection Program at a meeting.
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To begin to deal with South Africa’s persistent poverty, high unemployment, and the economic aftermath of the pandemic, grant increases must remain in place after the six month period.
States are increasingly turning to machine learning and algorithms to detect fraud in food stamps, Medicaid and other welfare programs – despite little evidence of actual fraud.
Rural Americans are more likely than urban Americans to experience disability.
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Neurotics are more disgruntled about the welfare state, yet they crave its reassurance.
Projects based on comprehensive understanding of gender norms in coastal communities will contribute to improved community wellbeing.
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