Sunday, January 17, 2021
Alors que la pauvreté s'accroît à cause de la crise du coronavirus, la question du revenu universel revient sur la table. La mairie de Paris va lancer une réflexion pour instaurer un revenu minimum garanti, et ainsi concrétiser une promesse de campagne d...
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Monday, December 21, 2020
Climate change disproportionately impacts the world’s most impoverished. So, experts are asking, why can’t they receive direct compensation and support?
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Africa, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Gambia, Kenya, Malawi, Uganda, Asia, Bhutan, India, Austria, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Sweden, United Kingdom, Europe
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Monday, November 23, 2020
Christine Jardine, a Scottish politician who represents Edinburgh in the UK parliament, was not a fan of universal basic income before the pandemic hit. "It was regarded in some quarters as a kind of socialist idea," said Jardine, a member of the...
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Tuesday, March 17, 2020
Falls ein Unternehmen aus betrieblichen Gründen wegen der Coronavirus-Pandemie zeitweilig schließen oder seinen Betrieb reduzieren muss, kann es über Kurzarbeitergeld finanzielle Unterstützung erhalten. Um den Unternehmen in der Krise kurzfristig zu...
Monday, February 3, 2020
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), with support from the Government of Germany, will improve the system of social services for families in eastern Ukraine. Last week, UNICEF signed memoranda with ten communities in Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts...
Tuesday, January 21, 2020
The expansion of all-day care for primary school children in Germany would be self-financing "to a large extent," according to a study by the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) published on Monday. From 2025 onwards, all primary school children...
Friday, January 10, 2020
The number of seniors at risk of poverty has risen by one-third since 2010, new data from Germany’s Statistical Office has revealed. According to these figures, almost every fifth pensioner in Germany – or 3.2 million people in total – is now threatened...
Friday, November 29, 2019
BLOG: A new report by the OECD has laid bare the inadequacies of the pension system in Germany, highlighting how even those who work full-time throughout their lives receive significantly lower pension benefits than the OECD average.
Friday, November 15, 2019
OPINION: The German government has patted itself on the back. According to Christian Democratic Party (CDU) leader Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, the basic pension model agreed upon by the CDU, Christian Social Union (CSU), and Social Democratic Party...
Wednesday, October 9, 2019
Less than 15 percent of eligible minors in Germany have recently benefited from the government's welfare program, according to a study published by the German umbrella welfare association Paritaetische Wohlfahrtsverband on Tuesday. The benefits for...