Saturday, October 23, 2021
It’s difficult for kids to go to school ready to learn when they’re hungry, battling toxic stress or experiencing any number of the devastating effects of poverty. As a former teacher, I ask that Congress make the Child Tax Credit (CTC) benefit...
Tuesday, September 28, 2021
During the rapid spread of COVID-19 in Japan, the Japanese government decided to provide a Special Cash Payment of 100,000 yen per person to all residents as a part of its “Emergency Economic Measures to Cope with COVID-19”. This column uses publicly...
Sunday, September 26, 2021
About 1,500 additional UK children a year would be removed from their families and taken into care as a result of the explosion in child poverty caused by the removal of the £20-a-week universal credit uplift, a study has predicted. The impact of the cut...
Friday, September 24, 2021
With COVID-19’s disruptions in employment, child care, and education, it is unsurprising that child poverty substantially increased in 2020—roughly 1.2 million more children were living in poverty in 2020 when compared to 2019 (an increase from 15.7% to...
Thursday, September 9, 2021
Conventional wisdom tends to run towards giving it to the woman. But a recent paper (ungated) by Laurens Cherchye, Pierre-Andre Chiappori, Bram De Rock, Charlotte Ringdal and Frederic Vermeulen tells us it might not matter (at least in terms of nutrition...
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Global, Africa, Burkina Faso, Kenya, Europe, North Macedonia
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Sunday, February 28, 2021
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Food security experts in South Africa warned early on that the lockdown instituted to manage the spread of COVID...
Thursday, October 29, 2020
Public support for more generous welfare benefits is at its highest level for more than two decades, amid new evidence that societal views on social security and immigration are becoming significantly more liberal, according to the latest annual...
Tuesday, July 28, 2020
Many governments increased temporary sick-leave benefits in the wake of COVID-19, but the benefits are due to expire after a certain time. This column looks back at a 2012 policy change in Spain which radically altered the generosity of paid sick leave...
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America, United States, Europe, Spain
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Monday, February 10, 2020
The cash payout to vulnerable groups could be adjusted for annual inflation if the State implemented the recommendation of a new study. The study, funded by World Food Programme (WFP) and Unicef, notes that the impact of Kenya’s cash transfer...
Friday, February 7, 2020
OPINION: The benefits of paternity leave are well-documented. When fathers equally share the duties of rearing newborns with mothers, family bonds are strengthened and all involved are healthier and happier. That, in turn, flows through to society and...
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Global, Asia, Hong Kong S.A.R., China, Japan, Singapore, South Korea
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