And according to the White House, more than 50% of all immigrant households receive welfare benefits, compared with only 30% of native households in the United States that receive welfare benefits.
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They could compensate the losers with training and welfare benefits.
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Should public money be spent on defence or welfare benefits?
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He said he advised her to apply for welfare benefits.
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It seems unwilling to countenance a bigger step—unfreezing welfare benefits.
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They received welfare benefits but most were not allowed to work.
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Claim: More than 50% of all immigrant households receive welfare benefits.
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For instance, the Brits want to restrict welfare benefits for migrants.
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Open-sourcing computer code might make sense when agencies distribute welfare benefits.
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In 1971, Ms. Hughes obtained a divorce to qualify for welfare benefits.
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But President Trump is not terminating welfare benefits exploited by aliens, either.
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If parents refuse to send their children, they could lose their welfare benefits.
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More than half the town's inhabitants get welfare benefits from the federal government.
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He said he also noted welfare benefits had been cut across the industry.
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It also loudly complains about illegal immigrants claiming welfare benefits (though few do).
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Putnam counterattacked in the debate by accusing DeSantis of supporting welfare benefits for immigrants.
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Their children are deemed illegitimate, which means they are not entitled to welfare benefits.
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Welfare benefits for EU migrants to Britain are the thorniest issue in the negotiations.
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Most importantly, there should be no welfare benefits for immigrants until they become citizens.
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They also call for cutting off welfare benefits to people who abscond from parole.
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Arthur: The problem isn't just material hardship, especially given the expansion of welfare benefits.
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They help individuals earn more than they were earning before, including lost welfare benefits.
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Since April 2016 the government has frozen, in cash terms, most working-age welfare benefits.
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And we'll stop amnesty, secure the boarders, and end welfare benefits for those here illegally.
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After the killing, Finley continued to draw welfare benefits for her daughter, according to authorities.
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Cuban nationals should be required to prove political or religious persecution before receiving welfare benefits.
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Eight in 10 low-income respondents believe working should be required to receive welfare benefits.
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While 5-Star wants to introduce generous welfare benefits, the League wants to slash taxes.
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Enrollees went back to work and their incomes doubled, more than offsetting lost welfare benefits.
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In the United States, workers pay more out of pocket for those social welfare benefits.
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The difference is who she believes should be allowed to enjoy these social welfare benefits.
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But the fate of a fourth demand — restricting welfare benefits for European Union migrants — remained precarious.
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That, together with government policies encouraging wage restraint and stingier welfare benefits, helped push up profits.
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Immigrants are not eligible for many welfare benefits for the first five years, according to Meissner.
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She said there was no crisis and the welfare benefits would be paid on April 1.
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Not only would the tax base grow but the demand for welfare benefits would go down.
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That, together with stingier welfare benefits and government policies encouraging wage restraint, helped push up profits.
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In fact, higher earnings more than offset lost welfare benefits, leaving these families financially better off.
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His platform is term limits for state lawmakers, tax cuts, and work requirements for welfare benefits.
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In addition to Medi-Cal, the state's programs include CalFresh for food assistance and CalWorks welfare benefits.
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Second, encourage all migrants, including refugees, to work, while limiting the welfare benefits that they can receive.
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Tax rates for the highest earners have fallen, welfare benefits have been squeezed and inequality has risen.
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He opposes providing welfare benefits for asylum seekers and has been holding forums to discuss his agenda.
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The budget envisages an extension of welfare benefits to the poor and unemployed, and selective tax cuts.
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The protests first erupted last April when Ortega, a former Marxist guerrilla, tried to cut welfare benefits.
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For his second month, he received cash welfare benefits of $250 cash and $190 in food stamps.
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She had campaigned on pledges to restore welfare benefits and to make Iceland carbon neutral by 2040.
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For Tubbs, it was important that participants continued to receive their existing welfare benefits from the government.
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Under the new law, migrants who do not meet the requirements could see their welfare benefits slashed.
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And if we worry that they'll hoover up welfare benefits, we can impose residency requirements for them.
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He vows to keep popular welfare benefits but also open Venezuela's economy along more business-friendly lines.
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Hardly. Did they seek a return to traditional cash welfare benefits and 70 percent top marginal tax rates?
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"There are many welfare benefits for which immigrants would no longer be eligible," the senior administration official said.
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Liechtenstein, a tiny EEA country, retains some residence controls; many EU countries also restrict welfare benefits for migrants.
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Even immigrant households with no U.S.-born children received welfare benefits at a very high rate — 22019 percent.
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It imposed work requirements on recipients of welfare benefits, and allowed states to erect further barriers to aid.
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He is campaigning on his achievements in office, particularly infrastructure development, welfare benefits, economic competitiveness and bureaucratic reform.
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Andrew Yang&aposs basic-income proposal, meanwhile, would replace some Americans&apos monthly stipends and existing welfare benefits.
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You mentioned "ban the box," but it also applies to other stuff, like voting rights and welfare benefits.
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All individuals would also make contributions – unless exempted – and would be eligible for a range of social welfare benefits.
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He also shepherded passage of the oft-maligned welfare reform bill of 2373, which made welfare benefits more temporary.
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The problem, Schrameyer contends, is that many immigrants don&apost pay their share of taxes, while collecting welfare benefits.
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Allocations to public education always compete with other budget areas such as "public housing [and] welfare benefits", he said.
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Some influential Democrats no longer view welfare benefits as "work supports" as they have done for the past generation.
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Nationwide, states have accumulated 6.4 million exemptions to date, worth more than $1 billion in taxpayer-funded welfare benefits.
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Welfare benefits are given to seventy-five percent of immigrant households with children that came from Mexico or Guatemala.
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This was scarcely his fault, but would anyone believe a word when he discussed public services and welfare benefits?
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She said she would never vote for a Democrat because she believed that the party favored generous welfare benefits.
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They simply wanted an equal chance to succeed, and even when they qualified for welfare benefits, they refused them.
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In addition to the draft exemption, ultra-orthodox communities in Israel receive the bulk of the nation's welfare benefits.
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So far, the candidates have largely embraced the same policy focus: expanded entitlement spending to guarantee new welfare benefits.
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In 2003, a woman named Lydia Fairchild got a DNA test as part of her qualification for welfare benefits.
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Israel's population is growing fast, and cuts to welfare benefits have pushed more people, particularly ultra-Orthodox women, into work.
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Party members are denounced as "enemies of the people" at village meetings, and risk losing their jobs and welfare benefits.
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Cubans are also eligible for federal welfare benefits including financial assistance for nine months under separate policies from the 20143s.
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He raised income taxes on high earners by an average of 10 percent, and slashed unemployment, pension, and welfare benefits.
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The company also failed to pay workers overtime at the proper rates or offer the required health and welfare benefits.
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The operators also confiscated the victims' drivers licenses and other identification documents, and forced them to surrender their welfare benefits.
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In his view, for example, the state may not justifiably require people to work in order to receive welfare benefits.
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And it may discriminate against rich people and in favor of poor people when deciding who to provide with welfare benefits.
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"Illegal immigrant households receive far more in federal welfare benefits than native American households," Trump wrote in a 2016 Facebook post.
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He said that housing allowances, family welfare benefits and pension payouts would increase by only 0003 percent in 2019 and 2020.
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And those who are granted refugee status and welfare benefits should not be allowed to travel to Cuba for tourism purposes.
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The eastern state of Odisha this year became the first to give transgender people welfare benefits such as pension and housing.
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It delivers welfare benefits as comprehensive as Scandinavia's but with lighter taxes, smaller government, and a more open and stable economy.
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Mandatory programs include Social Security for retirees, Medicare and Medicaid healthcare for the elderly, disabled and poor and other welfare benefits.
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The rule is premised on the notion that non-citizens burden citizen taxpayers by taking welfare benefits or other public funds.
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"A huge number of Amazon workers are so poorly paid, they qualify for federal welfare benefits," Carlson told viewers in August.
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For decades, many of those same messages have been levied as arguments against social welfare programs including welfare benefits and SNAP.
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The changes in the bill link increases in social welfare benefits to inflation and salaries, rather than tax revenue and salaries.
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Grocery and pharmacy workers often survive on low-wages, poor health and welfare benefits, involuntary part-time hours and erratic schedules.
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Nor can states discriminate against new residents by treating them differently in matters of importance, like medical care and welfare benefits.
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Mr. Trump and House Republicans have also asserted that welfare benefits are far too generous, and work requirements much too lax.
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Raised in the Liverpool neighborhood of Croxteth, Ms. Wilde has depended on welfare benefits to support herself and her two children.
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Figures released by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development showed that 14 percent of children in Germany receive welfare benefits.
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In 1958, China introduced 'hukou' or household registration laws that offered state welfare benefits to those connected to it by birth registration.
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Widows, in particular, were disadvantaged, she said, being unable to prove marriage to their husbands in order to gain government welfare benefits.
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And India's plans to connect residents' fingerprints, eyes and faces to everything from welfare benefits to mobile phones has horrified civil libertarians.
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Hu Xingdou, a professor at the Beijing Institute of Technology, said village officials often neglected needy families in doling out welfare benefits.
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He said the administration plans to transition to direct deposit or digital wallets to dispense welfare benefits over the next 18 months.
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Under the new plan, immigrants who come to the United States and receive welfare benefits could be denied green cards or visas.
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Additionally, they are charged with not keeping complete employee records and not paying for either health and welfare benefits or proper overtime.
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Among his most noted acts: He signed the largest tax cut in state history, curbed welfare benefits and oversaw strong job growth.
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Analysts say that some of the most vulnerable people are those who depend on welfare benefits and lack family life and support.
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"We are able to precisely edit traits in animals that provide animal welfare benefits or productivity benefits for that animal," Stanoch said.
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After moving to Germany in 2015, he improperly signed up for welfare benefits in multiple locations and was placed under electronic monitoring.
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For shippers, lower rail costs yielded 65 percent lower prices; for consumers, this resulted in $10 billion in annual consumer welfare benefits.
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During her campaign, Le Pen vowed to drastically restrict immigration, eradicate welfare benefits for immigrants, and strip French Muslims of dual citizenship.
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Ninety percent of American voters support the idea that able-bodied adults should have to work, train, or volunteer to receive welfare benefits.
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Since April 2016 the government has frozen most working-age welfare benefits in cash terms, as higher inflation has eroded their purchasing power.
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In the U.K. it is more a debate about jobs and the cost of welfare benefits than security, but all are relevant considerations.
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To a computer algorithm, your personal circumstances—those that forced you to apply for welfare benefits in the first place—mean absolutely nothing.
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The government took out newspaper ads in Lebanon informing would-be asylum seekers that welfare benefits for refugees had been cut in half.
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Digital security is particularly acute for cities, which hold reams of valuable personal data - from tax information to welfare benefits and parking fines.
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In 1996, President Bill Clinton signed a welfare "reform" bill that led to more than 6 million mothers with children losing welfare benefits.
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But in this campaign it aped those movements by appealing to fear of illegal immigrants claiming welfare benefits (even though few actually do).
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DACA applicants are solely responsible for paying their own application and renewals fees, and are automatically ineligible to receive taxpayer funded welfare benefits.
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In Western Europe, nationalists have exploited public worries that immigrants are diluting "national identity" and diverting social welfare benefits from natives to newcomers.
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Algorithms are making hugely consequential decisions in our society on everything from medicine to transportation to welfare benefits to criminal justice and beyond.
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Along with not qualifying for assistance from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, undocumented immigrants also do not qualify for unemployment and welfare benefits.
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Saenz, for example, struck down a state law that provided less generous welfare benefits to California residents who recently moved to the state.
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Sam Brownback has steered Kansas on a hard right turn on one issue after another: taxes, guns, abortion rights, Medicaid and welfare benefits.
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Beyond France, the election will be critical in determining Europe's openness to the world and the fate of its generous social welfare benefits.
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Above, Emma Wilde, a Liverpool resident, has struggled after losing the welfare benefits she depended on to support herself and her two children.
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But Mr. Corbyn's manifesto was intended to respond to popular dissatisfaction with seven years of Conservative austerity and cuts to social welfare benefits.
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Followers were rewarded with extraordinary state largess, often in the form of welfare benefits; dissidents were punished by being barred from such benefits.
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Demonstrations erupted in April 2018, when Ortega tried to cut welfare benefits, and gradually spread into a broader protest movement against his rule.
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Two bills would keep the government from denying welfare benefits to Americans based on their either past criminal history or their immigration status.
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The protests erupted over welfare benefits but spiraled into a broader movement to oust Ortega, who is serving his third term as president.
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One option would be to reverse the current policy under which most working-age welfare benefits are subject to a cash freeze until 2020.
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It is a protest by France's squeezed middle: those whose incomes are too high for all welfare benefits, but too low to feel comfortable.
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China's system of residential registration, and the welfare benefits that flow with it, have in practice been a barrier to such buyers, he said.
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America has no difficulty creating low-wage jobs for unskilled immigrants, and its welfare benefits are too mean to tempt refugees out of work.
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In the 90s, California and the federal government relied on the same waiver authority to try to impose work requirements on certain welfare benefits.
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This same technique was used in 1996 to unload welfare benefits on to the states, where the program has been allowed to shrivel away.
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Rome has said that its plans to fund welfare benefits, earlier retirement and investments through higher deficit spending will boost growth and cut debt.
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It also comes about two years after cuts in welfare benefits were enacted with furious responses from the effected communities and their political mouthpieces.
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Raisi, 56, had accused Rouhani of mismanaging the economy, travelling to poor areas and holding rallies where he promised more welfare benefits and jobs.
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Instead, they increasingly see welfare benefits as ends in themselves, regardless of whether recipients work consistently or even work at all to receive them.
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Cameron's proposal to deny British welfare benefits to EU workers for four years has been widely dismissed as illegal under treaties banning national discrimination.
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That law penalized immigrants — documented and undocumented — by conditioning their immigration status (or the opportunity for future status) on the avoidance of welfare benefits.
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One such regulation would declare an immigrant who uses welfare benefits to be a "public charge," making him or her ineligible for permanent status.
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And the economic devastation shifted union attitudes in the United States to favor employer or government-provided health and welfare benefits like paid vacations.
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That's a very significant difference, not least because the pay for job guarantee jobs would be much greater than welfare benefits used to be.
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Demonstrations erupted in April 2018 when Ortega tried to cut welfare benefits, and gradually spread into a broader protest movement against the president's rule.
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Homelessness has been increasing in England for nearly a decade amid rising private rents, a freeze on welfare benefits and a shortage of social housing.
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A reported series of leaks left as many as 130 million at risk of fraud, and technical errors have prevented Indians from receiving welfare benefits.
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Germany and others have been imposing rules to limit welfare benefits paid to migrants; some countries support an emergency brake against sudden surges in numbers.
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Homelessness has been rising in England for nearly a decade amid rising private rents, a freeze on welfare benefits and a shortage of social housing.
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The country also plans to conduct a non-obligatory census of Venezuelans living within its territory to help them access education, health and welfare benefits.
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"My advice to anyone who is going through the process of obtaining welfare benefits is to be 100 percent forthright in your situation," he said.
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Raised in the Croxteth area of Liverpool, Emma Wilde, left, has lost the welfare benefits she depended on to support herself and her two children.
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Despite the complicated name, BBCE is simple—states can automatically qualify individuals who already receive cash welfare benefits into food stamps without checking their assets.
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The government hopes mediators can help and is promising measures to offset prices rises, including extra welfare benefits for the poor and credits for farmers.
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The eastern state of Odisha last month became the first in the country to give transgender people social welfare benefits such as pension and housing.
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Currently, if an immigration judge approves a migrant's asylum request, the migrant is eligible to receive public welfare benefits, such as food stamps and Medicaid.
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And it would compound a second challenge highlighted by the Working Group, which is that the generosity of mainland-dictated welfare benefits tends to make low-wage opportunities appear relatively unattractive—by one account the Working Group cites, a household of three with no earner might receive $2900,220006 in monthly welfare benefits while take-home pay for a month of minimum-wage work would be only $2202,2628.
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Street protests erupted in April 2018 when President Daniel Ortega tried to cut welfare benefits, and spiraled into a broader protest movement against the president's rule.
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Bernie Sanders (I-VT) has repeatedly attacked Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos for paying warehouse employees so little that US taxpayers end up paying their welfare benefits.
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A sensible approach would be to allow migrants to get public education and health care immediately, but limit their access to welfare benefits for several years.
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Most EU countries are also tougher than Britain in insisting that welfare benefits cannot be claimed until a migrant builds up some years' worth of contributions.
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One of America's principle welfare benefits, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistant Program, is a $70 billion behemoth that supplies more than 1 in 10 Americans with food.
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It is also eager to curb the access of migrants from within the Union — mostly Poles — to welfare benefits to deter further mass immigration to Britain.
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LePage's list represents a tiny fraction of overall EBT withdrawals, but it effectively reinforced negative stereotypes and narratives about who relies on welfare benefits and why.
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Demonstrations erupted in April 2018, when Ortega tried to cut welfare benefits, and gradually spread into a broader protest movement against the president's rule in Nicaragua.
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It was then that the U.S. reversed a half century old strategy of unlimited welfare benefits and substituted work as the principle answer for reducing poverty.
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A protégé of Khamenei, Raisi focused his campaign on the economy, visiting rural areas and villages, promising housing, jobs and more welfare benefits for the poor.
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The Ortega government has arrested hundreds of people during violent clashes that first erupted in April 2018, when the veteran president tried to cut welfare benefits.
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She said she wasn't allowed to work for three years, wasn't entitled to welfare benefits and, unlike today's arrivals, had to pay for German language classes.
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Despite this, homeless charity Crisis said last month that Britain could end homelessness within a decade if it invested more in social housing and welfare benefits.
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Immigrants, legal and otherwise, actually pay billions of dollars in taxes per year, though they often aren't legally eligible for a full range of welfare benefits.
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More than 300 people have been killed and thousands injured in crackdowns by police and armed groups on protests over government plans to cut welfare benefits.
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The retailer tax is another tool of the ruling conservative Law and Justice party (PiS) to finance its costly election promises, including child and welfare benefits.
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Nicaragua has been gripped by its worst political crisis since demonstrations broke out against the Ortega government in April 2018 over planned cuts to welfare benefits.
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His campaign focused on immigrants, whom he blamed for "getting everything," such as welfare benefits, to the detriment of people born and raised in New Hampshire.
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Unlike fully legal immigrants, President Trump and the Democrats should agree to withhold all welfare benefits from dreamers for a period of at least five years.
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Demonstrations erupted in April 2018, when Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega tried to cut welfare benefits, and gradually spread into a broader protest movement against his rule.
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The researchers are trying a pure basic income, a partial basic income paired with some existing welfare benefits, a negative income tax, and some other ideas.
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They also have to prove that they have enough financial resources so they will not depend on welfare benefits during their stay in Germany, the parties agreed.
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If the church wins, "religious organizations cannot be excluded from general public welfare benefits that apply to everybody," said Erik Stanley, an alliance lawyer representing the church.
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Oman has long provided lavish welfare benefits to its citizens, but like other Gulf countries, it is being forced by shrunken oil revenues to scale those back.
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Recently, there have been moves to extend more benefits to the community, with Odisha state becoming the first to give transgender people welfare benefits such as pension.
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Precarious jobs in the low-wage sector are implicitly subsidised, welfare benefits have risen by less than inflation for years, and the tax system punishes single parents.
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In their view, the country is being overrun by foreigners who not only take their jobs and welfare benefits, but also bring fundamentally different values into Britain.
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Increases in other welfare benefits have helped oldsters too, and they have done better out of private pension schemes than their offspring are ever likely to do.
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Pete Wilson backed Proposition 187 in CA. This proposition was an anti-Latino ballot measure that would deny health care, education and welfare benefits to illegal immigrants.
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He set up the Pavement Dwellers Rights Association, which lobbies for welfare benefits and permanent homes within a 3 km (1.9 miles) radius of their current homes.
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Nearly half of families who receive no child support or have no child support awards are dependent on Medicaid, food stamps, public housing, or other welfare benefits.
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Experts said it's not surprising the Nordic country known for its generous welfare benefits, like universal free education, is at the forefront of a new economic experiment.
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The protests began after Ortega's leftist government moved to reduce welfare benefits, but soon escalated into broader opposition against Ortega, who has been in office since 2007.
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Ryan has called for work requirements and time limits on those who receive housing assistance, similar to how child support, food assistance and other welfare benefits function.
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That's because if applicants use any welfare benefits, even for children who are United States citizens, that could indicate they would be a burden on government resources.
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The Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank, found that the $163 billion estimate overcounted welfare benefits that undocumented immigrants receive, and undercounted the taxes that they pay.
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Kansas families who left welfare not only saw an increase in gross earnings, but their financial status improved on net, even after accounting for lost welfare benefits.
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Dozens of people have been jailed since April 2018, after demonstrations against President Daniel Ortega's attempt to cut welfare benefits escalated into broader protests of his rule.
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Dr. Pierce — the only obstetrician in Aiken County who would accept patients on welfare — made sterilization a condition of her continuing to receive welfare benefits through Medicaid.
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Despite the persistent myth of immigrants coming to the US to take welfare benefits, immigrants' eligibility for most public benefits in the US is pretty strictly limited.
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EU governments had also been pressing London to give better terms to EU expatriates on bringing in future family members and on moving social welfare benefits across borders.
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Many states now use administrative data on eligibility for means-tested programs such as welfare benefits and food stamps to automatically qualify children for subsidized meals in school.
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"Overall, immigrants are less likely to consume welfare benefits and, when they do, they generally consume a lower dollar value of benefits than native-born Americans," Cato concluded.
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Policymakers should identify ways to enhance the prospects of negatively affected workers through such policies as mobility grants, portable social-welfare benefits and privately supported worker retraining programs.
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He and his five siblings were raised in South Central Los Angeles by his mother alone, who relied on welfare benefits and earnings from the family thrift shop.
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That has humanitarian and child welfare benefits, but it also prevents the weaker job market from creating secondary and tertiary downturns in the grocery store and agricultural sectors.
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In 2012, Ms. Castillo also pleaded guilty in state court to third-degree grand larceny for falsely claiming $30,000 in welfare benefits from the city Human Resources Administration.
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Lately, he has made clear to immigration officials and others in the White House that he remains frustrated with the still-pending regulation on welfare benefits for immigrants.
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Some Tesla sales advisors said they took on second jobs to make up for lost income, or resorted to using food pantries and other public or welfare benefits.
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The platform suggests tying welfare benefits to work, streamlining and synchronizing federal, state and local services, bolstering retirement savings and access to financial services and reforming entitlement programs.
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Benefits fraud could include any of a number of different social welfare benefits given to Swedish citizens, like a $130 monthly allowance for each child and disability payments.
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"Adding another member to the family requires women to stretch limited resources even further, resulting in higher levels of poverty and reliance on social welfare benefits," she wrote.
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That article was cited in 21976 in a landmark United States Supreme Court decision, which broadened the definition of property rights to include licenses, contracts and welfare benefits.
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It should be said, overall the view is that the "welfare benefits" of the deal, by which economists mean gains to standards of living, have been very small.
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"The state is everything in Sweden," said Jakobssen, adding that the Scandinavian country offered generous social welfare benefits but also expected Swedes to behave within rigid social boundaries, too.
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However, with some 13 percent of the budget allocated to public wages, fuel subsidies and other welfare benefits, a portion devoted to infrastructure is most likely to be axed.
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Twelve percent came from off-the-books work (which wouldn't reduce welfare benefits) and underground work (selling sex, drugs, etc.), and 17 percent came from friends and family members.
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That small slice accounted for 81 percent of the group's criminal convictions, 66 percent of welfare benefits, 78 percent of prescription fillings and 40 percent of those considered obese.
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Slashing business taxes and cutting welfare benefits seems like an unlikely way to win back voters drawn to Trump's promise of economic nationalism and nation building here at home.
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Mattress Firm says it has filed motions to support the continued payment of employee wages and health and welfare benefits, as well as honor its customer policies and programs.
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Protests first erupted in April when Ortegas leftist government moved to reduce welfare benefits, but have escalated into broader opposition against Ortega, who has been in office since 2007.
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The case of Sami A. sparked outrage in April after German media reported he was receiving welfare benefits even though intelligence agencies had classified him as a potential threat.
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The British Home Secretary resigned Sunday over a government scandal in which immigrants who had lived in Britain for decades were made homeless, denied welfare benefits, and even deported.
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Demonstrations began in Nicaragua early last year over planned cuts to welfare benefits that later spread into broader protests against what critics see as Ortega's increasingly authoritarian-style rule.
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However, with some 70 percent of the budget allocated to public wages, fuel subsidies and other welfare benefits, a portion devoted to infrastructure is most likely to be axed.
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And there's more: Sure, he won only a temporary reprieve from paying welfare benefits to migrants, but in doing so he opened a conversation on real reform in Brussels.
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Neate is discussing the impact of the British government's proposed cuts to welfare benefits: cuts that Women's Aid warns will decimate the already over-stretched UK domestic refuge network.
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The regulation would give officials more power to declare an immigrant who uses welfare benefits to be a "public charge," making him or her ineligible for permanent legal status.
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Protests first erupted in April when Ortega's leftist government moved to reduce welfare benefits, but have escalated into broader opposition against Ortega, who has been in office since 2007.
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The United Arab Emirates doesn't consider the bidoon to be true Emiratis, and giving them citizenship would mean paying them the same generous social welfare benefits that Emiratis enjoy.
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The text reasserts rights to deny welfare benefits to non-working foreign EU citizens, to deport European criminals and those seen as a threat and to outlaw marriages of convenience.
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A Maharashtra state government order issued this week said the widows would also receive assistance with their children's education, and access to welfare benefits such as the rural jobs scheme.
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Besides a fresh emphasis on greenery, three structural reforms stand out: reorganisation of the public sector, reform of unemployment insurance and welfare benefits, and rationalisation of the French pension system.
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These include authority to continue payment of employee wages and health and welfare benefits, and to continue to honor its customer policies and programs, including warranties, returns/exchanges and promotions.
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Meanwhile the Republican Congress, alarmed at the rising budget deficit, had used the opportunity to attack entitlement programmes, cutting welfare benefits and spending across the board to shrink the state.
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In the U.K., a digital transformation campaign began in 2013, pushing through services that let citizens do things like claim certain welfare benefits, pay taxes and register to vote online.
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These people do not measure government's effectiveness by the generosity of its welfare benefits but by the opportunities created and freedoms preserved to allow them to earn their own way.
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Yet this was mild compared with the response to Sir Malcolm's demand, echoing Mr Cameron's, for the right to block in-work welfare benefits for EU migrants for four years.
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That means governments hardest hit by recessions — like Greece, Spain, and Italy after 2008 — get hit by declining tax revenues at the same time that demand for welfare benefits soars.
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's Constitutional Court said it will rule on Friday in a case concerning the unlawful tender of a contract to manage welfare benefits to 17 million people.
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Research has shown that non-disabled adults who leave welfare more than double their incomes, more than offsetting lost welfare benefits and leaving them better off than they were before.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany plans to sharply curb EU citizens' access to welfare benefits with new draft legislation that would save local communities billions of euros, government officials said on Friday.
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New legislation was required after a federal court ruled in 2015 and 2016 that non-working EU citizens had a right to social welfare benefits after six months in Germany.
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Trump has long called for tougher requirements to receive welfare benefits but hasn't been specific on what policies he would like to see and which programs he'd like to target.
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That's why PPNYC stands with many HIV/AIDS organizations and groups in support of the HASA for All campaign - an expansion of welfare benefits to all low-income, HIV-positive individuals.
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Using the same data, Cato researchers controlled for education levels, family size and income to see whether immigrants were more likely to use welfare benefits than non-immigrants in similar scenarios.
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Mr Hammond might get more public support for extra funding than he expects: 56% of Britons think that "cutting welfare benefits would damage too many people's lives", a 15-year high.
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But there's a growing body of evidence that the conventional U.S. strategy of low taxes, skimpy welfare benefits, and prohibitively expensive higher education won't result in more of them getting jobs.
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The Commission's forecasts were drawn up before data showed Italy posted first quarter growth of 2131.3 percent, and the government says its policies to raise welfare benefits will support domestic demand.
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"Most of these illegals are drawing welfare benefits, they're sending their kids to school, they're using the public services," Tom Delay said in 2016, though he conceded most still pay taxes.
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Or maybe you want to adjust shifts in income for things like the value of tax credits and social welfare benefits, and the value of health care and other benefits received.
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Prosecutors said the ministry workers promised free food and shelter to dozens of mostly homeless people, then forced them to turn over their welfare benefits and panhandle several hours a day.
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Geographic mobility also could be encouraged through clever reforms such as funding for mobility grants and allowing welfare benefits to be portable, lowering the cost of moving for the economically disadvantaged.
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A protege of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Raisi has focused his campaign on the economy, visiting rural areas and small villages, promising the poor housing, jobs and more welfare benefits.
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If the worry is that future migrants might not pay their way, why not charge them more for visas, or make them pay extra taxes, or restrict their access to welfare benefits?
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When it came to education levels, households led by an immigrant with less than a high school education ended up using fewer welfare benefits than American households with the same education level.
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Bernie Sanders (I-VT) has repeatedly attacked Bezos for paying warehouse employees so little that US taxpayers end up bearing the cost of their welfare benefits, such as food stamps and Medicaid.
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Carla Dekker, a Wilders voter in Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht, a Rotterdam suburb and PVV stronghold, said she had no problem with legitimate refugees, but she opposes economic migrants who claim welfare benefits.
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Moreno's supporters, in turn, have decried Lasso's plans, warning that he would slash welfare benefits and govern for the rich across a nation that stretches from Andean plateaus to the Galapagos Islands.
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This is one of the various collateral consequences of prison, which include restrictions on employment and bans on receiving welfare benefits, accessing public housing, or qualifying for student loans for higher education.
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Denmark has been leading this policy of looking bad ever since the country's new government took out ads in Lebanese newspapers warning asylum seekers that welfare benefits to refugees had been cut.
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For example, Texas has historically offered fewer welfare benefits than California, and it is no surprise that immigrants in California are more likely to be collecting government aid than those in Texas.
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Indigenous Chakma and Hajong refugees who left Bangladesh more than five decades ago have limited citizenship in India, but not land rights, while Tibetan refugees get welfare benefits, but no property rights.
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A regulation to deny welfare benefits to legal immigrants — a change Mr. Miller repeatedly predicted would be "transformative" — was still plodding through the approval process after more than two years, he complained.
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Then it dawned on them that the rising number of hungry children at Morecambe Bay coincided with sharp reductions in welfare benefits associated with the clumsy introduction of a new welfare program.
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Should China increase welfare benefits in line with high-income countries — a stated aspiration of the Chinese leadership — they could take up to 32 percent of the gross domestic product by 2050.
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The Supreme Court has ruled that states can't offer new residents lower welfare benefits than longtime residents, so New Jersey would be forced to give all those people the money, bankrupting the state.
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The bill's proponents said the government was merely asking refugees to abide by the same requirements that Danish citizens face, namely that they use their own resources before being eligible for welfare benefits.
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Among the changes he sought at the time: Beefed up border security, limiting welfare benefits to undocumented immigrants, removing the path to citizenship for the undocumented and a dramatic expansion of legal immigration.
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So would one set at countries' pre-established welfare benefit level, and funded where necessary by increased taxes (or decreased taxes in Italy, where welfare benefits are below the budget-neutral UBI level).
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The case of the Tunisian man, Sami A., sparked outrage in April after German media reported that he was receiving welfare benefits even though intelligence agencies have classified him as a potential threat.
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Nicaragua has been gripped by a political crisis since early 2018 when demonstrations broke out against Ortega, a Cold War-era U.S. foe and former guerilla leader, over planned cuts to welfare benefits.
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"Eliminating fraud and fake goods in the food and beverage industry is going to be worth billions of dollars and has broader health and welfare benefits too," he told CNBC in an email.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain will provide measures worth several billions of pounds to support low-paid workers and those on welfare benefits who become ill with coronavirus, finance minister Rishi Sunak said on Wednesday.
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The victims, all freed since a teenage girl escaped last year and alerted authorities, were also essentially robbed of their social welfare benefits while being held against their will, according to federal prosecutors.
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And the cost to the American taxpayer was minimal: The program had no uncompensated administrative costs, nor were recipients eligible for welfare benefits or subsidies of any kind under the Affordable Care Act.
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Clinton was unwilling to accept a Republican plan that would balance the federal budget in seven years by cutting taxes; slashing Medicare, Medicaid and welfare benefits; and trimming hundreds of other federal programs.
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"Who Killed My Father" starts with family history and ends in social critique, as Louis explores the government policies that cut his father's welfare benefits and, according to him, worsened his dad's health.
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But the indictment said the ministry, upon checking homeless people in to faith-based rehabilitation group homes, locked them inside with deadbolt locks, confiscated identification documents to prevent escapes and stole welfare benefits.
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Under that 1996 program directed at welfare benefits, the entitlement to federal assistance was replaced by a hodgepodge of programs managed by the states and financed by a fixed dollop of federal cash.
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Mr. Cameron wants Britain to be able to restrict one class of social welfare benefits — those that typically supplement low-paid work — to non-Britons arriving in the country from other European Union nations.
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His so-called brake on welfare benefits for European immigrants, for example, would require the agreement of other countries, would not be applied for more than a year and would eventually be phased out.
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At least 250,000 people are estimated to be homeless across England, housing charity Shelter said last December, because of a lack of affordable homes, along with government funding cuts and restrictions on welfare benefits.
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Earlier, Cameron had met with European leaders, including EU President Donald Tusk, Italy's Matteo Renzi and Polish Prime Minister Beata Szydlo, trying to close the gap on issues including financial governance and welfare benefits.
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These are being linked to a national identity card scheme so that account holders can receive welfare benefits directly, to buy cooking gas or for work under a rural jobs scheme, reducing systemic fraud.
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In the past 230 years other welfare benefits, such as those related to housing and disability, have increased by 223% in real terms for the average retired household, against 222% for the non-retired.
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In December 53, the PSD returned to power on a platform of modest wage and welfare benefits coupled with family-values conservativism, garnering substantial electoral margins from its vast town and country political machine.
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Eager to curb the access of EU migrants - mostly Poles - to in-work welfare benefits to deter further mass immigration to Britain, it is the last country likely to criticize Warsaw over civil rights.
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Cheong said legitimacy would help with any future application for citizenship and access to certain welfare benefits, as well as removing a perceived stigma around illegitimacy "that you can't really place a value on".
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The McNamara-O'Hara Service Contract Act, which applies to every contract over $2,500, requires contractors and subcontractors to observe minimum wage laws, as well as safety, health and welfare benefits, and maintain certain records.
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Requiring work or training as a condition of receiving welfare benefits encourages self-sufficiency and ensures SNAP and all other welfare programs are serving only those truly in need, without unnecessarily burdening American taxpayers.
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BUENOS AIRES — After days of intense clashes outside Argentina's Congress that left scores injured and led to at least 70 arrests, lawmakers on Tuesday approved a contentious bill tightening pension and social welfare benefits.
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Then, as they were passing him after leaving the line, he asked them if they were using electronic benefits transfer cards, which are like debit cards for welfare benefits, to pay for their food.
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The degradation of the welfare state beginning in the 1980s goes a long way to explain it, as reduced welfare benefits encouraged workers of all stripes to go back to work for lower wages.
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In the past week, thousands of Iranians, from a diverse spectrum of socio-economic backgrounds, have taken to the streets following the institution of legislation that aimed to increase taxes and slash welfare benefits.
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Nicaragua has been gripped by a political crisis since early 2018 when demonstrations broke out against Daniel Ortega, a Cold War-era U.S. foe and former guerilla leader, over planned cuts to welfare benefits.
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They will not have access to social welfare benefits during that period but will be allowed to work in jobs for which they are overqualified so they can earn some money, the paper added.
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A ballot would be the seventh since 2006 in the Gulf Arab state, where political strains have long held up economic development and the government is trying to introduce painful cuts to longstanding welfare benefits.
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In a report, Alston said that as welfare benefits and access to health insurance were being slashed, President Donald Trump's tax reform awarded "financial windfalls" to the mega-rich and large companies, further increasing inequality.
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The accompanying text slammed Prime Minister David Cameron for failing to negotiate new controls on immigration and dismissed a deal that prevented migrants from the E.U. from claiming welfare benefits for four years as insufficient.
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U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders, who consistently pressed Amazon on the issue, recently introduced the Stop BEZOS Act, which sought to tax companies with employees who earned wages low enough that they received federal welfare benefits.
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President Trump in a rally on Wednesday evening said immigrants who enter the United States should not be eligible for welfare benefits for five years, though such a law has already existed for 20 years.
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This year, he said asylum-seekers brought diseases like the "ziki-fly," and his administration has pushed to cut welfare benefits for some asylum-seekers, frustrating members of a community that has grown in Maine.
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States have some discretion, and can expand access to welfare if they choose, but generally, permanent residents can receive means-tested welfare benefits like Medicaid only after five years of residence in the United States.
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Our work takes into account federal and state corporate and income taxes, federal payroll taxes, Medicaid, ObamaCare and Medicaid benefits, welfare benefits, food stamps, 2202 Social Security benefits, Supplemental Security Income, state sales taxes, etc.
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Some argue that high taxes are a disincentive to risk-taking and innovation and that generous welfare benefits engender a sense of complacency and entitlement, and I am sure there is some truth to this.
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Bernie Sanders (I-VT) has repeatedly attacked Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos for paying warehouse employees so little that US taxpayers end up bearing the cost of their welfare benefits, such as food stamps and Medicaid.
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LONDON, March 11 (Reuters) - Britain will provide measures worth several billions of pounds to support low-paid workers and those on welfare benefits who become ill with coronavirus, finance minister Rishi Sunak said on Wednesday.
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Several commentators sarcastically pointed out that the government recently limited certain welfare benefits for low-income or jobless parents with more than two children — a move that experts say could push 200,000 children into poverty.
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Ken Cuccinelli, the acting head of US Citizenship and Immigration Services, wrote that the administration's new "public charge" immigration rule was meant to help the country by excluding people who might someday use welfare benefits.
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South Africa's Constitutional Court was set to rule on Friday in a case concerning the unlawful tender of a contract to Net1 unit Cash Paymaster Services (CPS) to manage welfare benefits to 17 million people.
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More than 300 people have been killed and 2,000 injured in crackdowns by Nicaraguan police and armed groups in protests that began in April over an abortive plan by leftist Ortega's government to reduce welfare benefits.
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They were also asked whether they approved of policies such as treating EU migrants the same way as non-EU migrants, or restricting welfare benefits to other EU citizens, which more closely resemble a hard Brexit.
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KUWAIT (Reuters) - A three-day strike by oil workers in Kuwait last month over pay reforms shows the government faces considerable opposition as it prepares to push through painful and controversial cuts to longstanding welfare benefits.
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A defect of Italian politics, especially in the south, has long been the role of patronage—voters offering support to local power brokers in the hope of jobs, contracts or welfare benefits tapped from the state.
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Better still, those leaving welfare went back to work in hundreds of different industries and saw their incomes more than double on average, earning more than enough to replace the welfare benefits they used to receive.
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Thankfully, that trend is starting to reverse and states that are now enforcing work have seen the incomes of former enrollees more than double, more than offsetting lost welfare benefits and leaving them better off overall.
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Peeved that some of his policies have yet to be realized, like denying welfare benefits to legal immigrants and stripping child migrants of court-ordered protections, Mr. Miller has been targeting officials he considers insufficiently harsh.
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Universal Basic Income (UBI) involves giving citizens cash payments each month to spend however they see fit, often in addition to welfare benefits that tend to be tied to specific needs, such as housing or childcare.
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NEW DELHI — Seeking to build an identification system of unprecedented scope, India is scanning the fingerprints, eyes and faces of its 1.3 billion residents and connecting the data to everything from welfare benefits to mobile phones.
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The National Front in France, for example, which recently lost the presidential election, was calling for lowering the retirement age and increasing welfare benefits to go along with its message opposing immigration and the European Union.
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The economy grows more rapidly, wealth increases, jobs and opportunities explode, unemployment and welfare benefits implode (the number of people currently receiving unemployment benefits is the lowest in 44 years), and we are all better off.
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But they are actually "less likely to consume welfare benefits and, when they do, they generally consume a lower dollar value of benefits than native-born Americans," according to the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank.
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London-based charity Housing Justice said people waiting for asylum, or those appealing their rejected claims were most at risk of destitution since they are not entitled to regular welfare benefits nor are they allowed to work.
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The latest math-induced headache comes from Australia, where an automated compliance system appears to be issuing incorrect notices to some of Australia's most vulnerable people, asking them to prove they were entitled to past welfare benefits.
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ATHENS (Reuters) - Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras announced late on Thursday that his government would spend 617 million euros in one-off welfare benefits for low income pensioners after the country exceeded its 2016 primary surplus target.
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The independent Institute for Fiscal Studies said on Thursday that more children would fall into absolutely poverty over the next five years as the rise in inflation eats into the value of most working-age welfare benefits.
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Like Trump, Le Pen supports protectionism and robust protections for the entitlement state, but she also wants expanded welfare benefits, a reduction in France's already unaffordable retirement age, and the retention of a 35-hour working week.
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In that way, they would also help solve the poverty trap problem, which is the sky-high marginal tax rates poor people face as they lose welfare benefits, including Medicaid, if they increase earnings or get married.
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CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - South African President Jacob Zuma said on Thursday there was no "crisis" as doubts mounted over the payment of welfare benefits to 17 million people because of a court battle involving the service-provider.
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Two weeks ago, the White House issued a "public charge" rule change, restricting the ability of non-citizens to apply for a green card if they rely significantly on welfare benefits or are likely to do so.
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Mr. da Silva, a skillful politician who endeared himself to both rich and poor, presided over heady economic growth and a generous expansion of social welfare benefits that helped lift millions of Brazilians out of abject poverty.
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The assessment was based on a statistical analysis of four years of prior calls, using well over 100 criteria maintained in eight databases for jails, psychiatric services, public-welfare benefits, drug and alcohol treatment centers and more.
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Resistance to the compact has largely fed on fears that it would force countries to throw open their borders and extend welfare benefits to new arrivals, which opponents say would draw enormous flows of people from abroad.
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Twelve leaders of a California-based church were arrested Tuesday on charges that they forced dozens of mostly homeless people into panhandling and handing over their welfare benefits under the guise of "restoring" them from drug addiction.
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Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen said at the time that the law's purpose was to introduce the same requirements for asylum seekers that the country's citizens faced: to use their own resources before qualifying for welfare benefits.
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Homeless Children Are Being Housed in Shipping Containers, English Report Finds A lack of affordable housing and changes to welfare benefits crisis have resulted in tens of thousands of children being forced to live in temporary facilities.
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Officials said that since last year, municipal and state authorities had been trying to collect about $95,000 in welfare benefits that had been wrongly paid to 29 citizens who had gone to Syria to fight for ISIS.
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If a significant number of them moved their operations to European Union cities or New York, the pressure on the British government's budget to pay for health care, pensions, welfare benefits and military spending would increase substantially.
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CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - South Africa's Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan said on Tuesday he was "fairly confident" social security payments will be paid on April 1 despite a service-provider dispute that has cast doubt over the welfare benefits.
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The agency that runs the program, the Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment, said the data could include income, debt, education, property, rent, car ownership, home address and the welfare benefits received for children, housing and health care.
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He said progress was needed to nail down key demands in the areas of competitiveness, the relationship between countries in the bloc that use the euro and those that do not, national sovereignty and access to welfare benefits.
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"Shelters are at best a temporary measure; what they need is a home, government documents that lets them avail of welfare benefits, and greater say in the process of building and allocating homes for the homeless," he said.
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The indictment alleges that church leaders would force victims to panhandle for up to nine hours a day, six days a weeks, surrendering all their earnings and even welfare benefits, such as food stamps, to the church leaders.
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There are concerns in eastern Europe that a deal to help Cameron cut immigration, by barring low-paid EU migrant workers from British welfare benefits for up to four years after they arrive, years would hurt their citizens.
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The whopping increase in public charge denials comes after the State Department last year gave US consular officers more discretion to reject visas if they believed that person could become a public charge and require public welfare benefits.
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Supporters of Britain leaving the bloc, or a "Brexit," say that British jobs are going to immigrants who are willing to work for low wages and are attracted by the chance to claim relatively generous social welfare benefits.
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The leaders, including the former pastor of Imperial Valley Ministries, allegedly coerced homeless people into surrendering welfare benefits and panhandling for up to nine hours a day, six days a week, according to the Southern District of California.
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The case of Sami A., a 41-year-old Tunisian man, sparked outrage last month after German media reported that he was receiving welfare benefits despite the fact that intelligence agencies had classified him as a potential threat.
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London-based charity Housing Justice said people waiting for asylum, or those appealing their rejected claims, were most at risk of homelessness and destitution since they are not entitled to regular welfare benefits nor are they allowed to work.
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A group of eastern European states chaired by the Czechs is trying to hold back how far their citizens can be denied welfare benefits in Britain, or have family allowances reduced, as part of Cameron's drive to cut immigration.
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The panel also ruled that citizens can't be denied welfare benefits if they don't have an Aadhaar ID. The court has requested that the government enable stronger security measures and limit the time that personal data can be stored.
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The Commission's forecasts were drawn up before data showed Italy emerged from recession in the first quarter with stronger-than-expected growth of 2131.3 percent, and the government says its policies to raise welfare benefits will support domestic demand.
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The Commission's forecasts were drawn up before data showed Italy emerged from recession in the first quarter with stronger-than-expected growth of 0.2 percent, and the government says its policies to increase welfare benefits will support domestic demand.
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Another important driver of homelessness outside New York City is a state law requiring agencies to cut off welfare benefits to people who fail to show up to work, drug treatment programs and appointments with social workers, advocates say.
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BRUSSELS, Feb 10 (Reuters) - Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic want to keep Britain in the European Union but London's plans to curb welfare benefits to migrant workers in Britain remain their "primary concern", a joint statement said.
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Under Bill Clinton, the federal government began handing out contracts to for-profit prisons, allowed private companies to determine who was eligible for welfare benefits, and even toyed with the idea of investing Social Security in the stock market.
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's top court on Wednesday blamed Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini for a "crisis" that could jeopardise the payment of welfare benefits to 17 million people, saying she had failed to resolve a service-provider dispute.
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Torres in 85033 and Harris v Rosario in 1980, the Supreme Court has allowed the United States Government to discriminate against residents in Puerto Rico in the provision of welfare benefits so long as it has a rational basis.
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He has recently suffered a heart attack and, though keen to resume his job as a carpenter, is not yet well enough to work, though he is deemed well enough to be ineligible for welfare benefits while he waits.
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Back in 1993, when he was a freshman member, he made headlines for a shouting match he got into on the House floor with Representative Dan Rostenkowski, a fellow Democrat, when Becerra argued against denying welfare benefits to immigrants.
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The House budget would impose harsh work requirements on a host of new programs and turn Medicaid into "block grants," placing federal funds in the hands of individual states—a system that has dramatically eroded welfare benefits since 1996.
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As the California government faced lean years, it was left with what she calls "surplus state capacity" — government agencies that had lost their political mandate to use funding and expertise for social welfare benefits (like schools, housing and hospitals).
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And the numbers indicate that, as poverty bites in poorer cities, the phenomenon is increasing more rapidly outside the capital, propelled by high rents, reduced welfare benefits and eight years of public spending cuts linked to policies of austerity.
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Under the proposed legislation, any citizen deemed a national security risk after traveling abroad to join the Islamic State would have his or her benefits immediately halted, said Bent Nielsen, an official who oversees how welfare benefits are distributed.
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Ken Loach, in contrast, earned rave reviews for his British drama I, Daniel Blake, which centers on a 59-year-old craftsman (Dave Johns) who is battling to keep his welfare benefits even though a medical condition prevents him from working.
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" Merkel said that if, for example, someone came to Germany from eastern Europe and worked only for a short time but acquired a life-long claim on welfare benefits, "then I see a question about which we must talk again.
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EU migrants could also be forced to show evidence of a job offer before being allowed to enter Britain, and those without permission to reside could be banned from renting, opening a bank account or accessing welfare benefits, it said.
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A lack of affordable homes, along with government funding cuts and restrictions on welfare benefits, has helped increase the country's homeless population by 6 percent over the last year to 58,000 people, said a report by the housing charity Crisis.
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The White House reported that in states where work requirements were put in place for able-bodied adults receiving welfare benefits, recipients became twice as likely to work and the average time spent on food stamps was cut in half.
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Sari Feldman, president of the American Library Association, said library workers had shown people how to file online for welfare benefits and taught classes in science, technology, engineering and math to children who could not afford to go to summer camps.
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On March 85033, the International Monetary Fund reported that removing steel and aluminum tariffs — and the Canadian and Mexican countermeasures that come with them — would greatly enhance the welfare benefits of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) to the American economy.
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In return, Mr. Rabin delivered a host of reforms, said Mohammed Dawarshe, an activist and expert on Arab-Jewish relations: bigger budgets for Arab areas, equality in welfare benefits for families with children, and overdue infrastructure work in neglected Arab villages.
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The sale was also key to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's plans to help keep the fiscal deficit at 3.3 percent of GDP, a goal already under pressure from giveaways to farmers and other welfare benefits ahead of the 2019 national elections.
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Then in August, a leader of the Green Party, Metiria Turei, resigned her post because of fallout from revelations that she had lied about her living situation in the 1990s, when she was a single mother, to receive welfare benefits.
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Another Social Democrat, Ralf Jäger, the interior minister in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany's most populous state, came under pressure after it became clear that the Tunisian had at the very least cheated the government by claiming welfare benefits in multiple locations.
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Still, such an outcome would provide the president-elect with a strong parliamentary backing to enact his centrist programme, which features some tax relief measures financed through a reduction in public spending, an extension of welfare benefits, and labour market reforms.
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Despite these problems, the administration of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has expanded the reach of Aadhaar over the past year, requiring it for a host of public services beyond welfare benefits — such as to register marriages or file income tax returns.
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The most delicate issue on the table was Mr. Cameron's call for the right to restrict welfare benefits for non-British citizens of European Union countries, namely by limiting access to "in work" payments that typically supplement the earnings of low-wage employees.
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The draft deal called for an "emergency brake" that Britain could apply to restrict welfare benefits to European migrants, but even as proposed, the brake would be relaxed over time, with more benefits paid to migrants the longer they stayed in Britain.
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One of the big stories of last year's election was the rise of Podemos ("We can"), a left-wing populist party that has called for increasing welfare benefits, ending corruption, and changing EU policy to focus less on austerity and low inflation.
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Germany, the Netherlands and others have won several cases in the European Court of Justice, establishing that people from poorer east European countries are not entitled to claim immediate welfare benefits in richer EU members which often exceed median wages at home.
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The proponents of the "Leave" campaign are tapping into widespread resentment of supposed European encroachments on British sovereignty, opposition to immigration policies that have allegedly taken British jobs and welfare benefits, and the belief that Britain can do better on its own.
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Long seen as the trickiest of the British demands, the EU offered an "emergency brake" mechanism to help Cameron fulfill promises to reduce immigration from the EU by curbing welfare benefits to EU workers for up to four years after they arrive.
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BHUBANESWAR, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - India's eastern Odisha state is the first region in the country to give transgender people social welfare benefits - such as a pension, housing and food grains - usually allocated for only the most impoverished, an official said on Thursday.
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Its private economy is weak and seasonal and its people are relatively poor, unhealthy and troubled: one in four claims welfare benefits, life expectancy is five years below the national average and the town has acute crime, drug-abuse and alcoholism problems.
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Of the nearly 280,240 migrants who applied for asylum in Germany in 215, more than 19753 percent received refugee status or humanitarian protection, which enabled them to work and receive welfare benefits, according to data from the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees.
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It is true that DAPA and DACA also entitle beneficiaries to work permits, welfare benefits and the like, but the immigration law itself authorizes the executive branch to confer those benefits on anyone whom it decides not to deport, for whatever reason.
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It said there was no legal basis for the wide application of the card, which was introduced for claiming welfare benefits but was criticized by data-privacy campaigners when it was required to access other state services such as renewing driving licences.
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The Congressional Budget Office estimates that a worker whose earnings grow from the federal poverty level to 150 percent of that level experiences the equivalent of a tax increase from 17 percent to 65 percent because of how welfare benefits phase out.
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The sale was key to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's plans to help keep the fiscal deficit at 3.3 percent of GDP, a goal which is already under pressure from giveaways to farmers and other welfare benefits ahead of the 2019 general elections.
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The number of older people applying for welfare benefits to pad their pensions more than doubled between 2003 and 2015, according to the Sozialverband VdK, an independent social justice lobby group based in Berlin, as more pensioners struggled to meet their basic needs.
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One study found this could have an impact on crime: Researchers at the University of Missouri St. Louis and Georgia State University found that Missouri counties that moved to electronic welfare benefits saw bigger crime drops than those that stuck with cash.
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The reality is that similar problems exist in the U.S. welfare system, where individuals and families can sometimes face "benefit cliffs," or "poverty traps" which mean that if their wages and income rise even a little, they can lose major welfare benefits.
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But Agriculture secretary Sonny Perdue defended the changes in a USA Today op-ed in December last year, saying that drawing welfare benefits was "never intended to be a way of life" and said the administration was seeking to help people become independent.
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A report in 2016 from the House of Commons Library, an impartial research service, suggests that in 2010-15 women bore the cost of 85% of savings to the Treasury worth £23bn ($29bn) from austerity measures, specifically cuts in welfare benefits and in direct taxes.
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Others doubt much change can be achieved in the kingdom's conservative society, or worry that the program will be painful as welfare benefits are cut to protect state finances and the government pushes more Saudis into the private sector jobs instead of cushy public employment.
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And in developing its immigration policy, it should also keep in mind that, in recent years, a growing number of Cuban nationals have exploited America's generosity by collecting welfare benefits designated for political refugees and using those funds to travel back and forth to Cuba.
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There remains an unyielding and erroneous assumption that people are poor by choice; in one 1985 survey, repeated in 83, the percent of respondents saying "welfare benefits make people dependent and encourage them to stay poor" barely budged, going from 59 percent to 54 percent.
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Protests in the Central American nation first erupted in April when Ortega's leftist government moved to reduce welfare benefits, but since then have escalated into broader opposition to Ortega, a Cold War-era former Marxist guerilla leader who has been in office since 2007.
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And the policy consequences are now becoming clear: The state has been empowered to seize cash and cellphones from asylum seekers and is planning to reduce welfare benefits to migrants who don't pass language tests and to ban girls under 10 from wearing head scarves.
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Labor-exporting states such as Poland, Hungary and Romania feel they went as far as they could to help London by agreeing in a February deal to let it deny in-work welfare benefits to new arrivals from their countries for up to four years.
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On Twitter, Sanders supporters think Hillary Clinton is a monstrous right-winger who spends her days and nights plotting to throw poor kids off welfare benefits while outsourcing their fathers' jobs to China in order to free up scarce public resources for her warmongering.
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But while the Trump administration paints immigrants as abusing public benefits, immigrants are actually "less likely to consume welfare benefits and, when they do, they generally consume a lower dollar value of benefits than native-born Americans," according to the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank.
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Whatever you think about the block framework of our reform, which is meant to encourage more work and more temporary welfare benefits, you have to understand that if you have a block grant that doesn't grow, even with inflation over time, it's value is going to erode.
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Over the past decade and a half, Mr. Chávez and Mr. Maduro made spending on welfare benefits their top priority to keep their base loyal, while neglecting institutional reforms that would have diversified the country's revenue sources and made lasting improvements to the education and health systems.
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Parents have many good reasons for leaving their children behind: the high cost of living in cities, unstable employment so far from home and the restraints of China's household registry system, known as hukou, which ties citizens' welfare benefits and school privileges to their place of birth.
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Selling the state carrier had been seen as key to Modi's plans to divest assets and help keep the fiscal deficit at 3.3 percent of GDP, a goal already under pressure from giveaways to farmers and other welfare benefits ahead of a national election in 2019.
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When it was set up by the Congress Party-led government in 2009, it was touted as a voluntary biometric ID system that would ensure the smooth delivery of public services — notably welfare benefits and subsidized food for the poor — while limiting the risk of fraud.
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Authorities forced hundreds of thousands of unmarried, unwillingly pregnant white woman to give up their babies for adoption; meanwhile, poor women of color were evicted from public housing, lost their welfare benefits, and, in some states, were threatened with jail if they had another baby outside of wedlock.
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During the past six months, stories have emerged in the press of immigrants who have lived and worked in the U.K. for more than fifty years being detained, made homeless, sacked, denied welfare benefits and refused treatment on the National Health Service because they couldn't prove they are British.
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Sharon Jones, a 53-year old Wal-Mart cashier from Coleman County, Alabama, says her anger over undocumented immigrants shopping at her store on welfare benefits is animating her support for Trump, who has promised to deport undocumented workers and build a wall along the U.S. border with Mexico.
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During more than a decade as a federal prosecutor and state attorney general, and 20 years in the Senate, Mr. Sessions came to believe that immigrants, whether here legally or illegally, posed a direct threat to the country by depressing wages, committing crimes and competing for welfare benefits.
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In 144 "commitments" published at the start of a two-day rally in Lyon, Le Pen proposes leaving the euro zone, holding a referendum on EU membership, slapping taxes on imports and on the job contracts of foreigners, lowering the retirement age and increasing several welfare benefits while lowering income tax.
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While some have cast universal basic income as replacing current welfare benefits, the new payments under discussion would be on top of Medicaid, housing, tax credits, food stamps, and other benefits for people with low earnings, piling onto the benefits that adults stand to lose if they work and earn more.
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In 2628, President Clinton emphasized in his State of the Union address how Americans were concerned about the large numbers of illegal aliens entering our country, which led his administration to hire a record number of border guards and crack down on illegal hiring by barring welfare benefits to illegal aliens.
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He supported the death penalty for drug lords and limits on legal immigration (to reduce competition with citizens for jobs); at one point, he would have denied automatic citizenship to American-born children of illegal immigrants, saying it would be too costly to provide them with health and welfare benefits.
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He has joined other governors in calling for a ban on Syrian refugees, and last month, told The Boston Herald that he would review welfare benefits for refugees, though they are mostly administered under federal rules, after learning that an Iranian who had joined the Islamic State had received welfare in Maine.
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Returning in 2015 was the large wave of illegal aliens from Central America and other regions as word continued to spread that entry into the United States is not frowned upon by the Obama administration and is instead often rewarded with work permits, Social Security accounts, welfare benefits and protection from deportation.
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The government has since created various laws to strengthen employee protections, including ERISA (1974), which is considered the grandfather of modern welfare benefits, COBRA (1986) to protect those recently unemployed, health savings accounts (HSAs, 85033) to help individuals cover out-of-pocket healthcare costs and the ACA (2010), arguably the most controversial of all.
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"Born to a single mother still grieving her father's unexpected death and raised with the help of welfare benefits and a close extended family, the struggles low-income families in Maryland's 5th District face aren't an abstraction for McKayla Wilkes, they're part of her life story," said Yvette Simpson, the CEO of Democracy for America.
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Since then, it has grown to become the world's largest fundraising platform, and it and other crowdsourcing platforms have come to serve as the country's ad-hoc safety net of sorts, exposing all the ways in which our country's actual safety net—health care, welfare benefits, rent assistance—fails miserably to fulfill people's basic needs.
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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced on Thursday they would accept applications from states that want to set up a Medicaid block grant, a long-held goal of ideological conservatives who want to scale back the social safety net, and one deployed successfully to severely limit cash welfare benefits in the 1990s.
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One investigation by Bryce Covert and Josh Israel for ThinkProgress summarized the aftermath after seven states attempted to tie welfare benefits to drug testing: According to state data gathered by ThinkProgress, the seven states with existing programs — Arizona, Kansas, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Utah — are spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to ferret out very few drug users.
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One of the hypotheses is that the Workers' Party prioritized social assistance programs but failed to link those incredible welfare benefits to any kind of political position or policy position among the beneficiaries; that the Workers' Party failed to bring into being a kind of new citizen consciousness — they just created this new middle class of consumers.
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The move comes as several American cities flirt with bringing the scheme to the U.S. Ontario's new conservative government this week said it would end the pilot program, which gave free government funds to people in low-paying jobs -- instead of welfare benefits -- in the region to test whether the money helped to improve health, education and housing.
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These are promises to improve EU competitiveness and promote free-trade deals; an end to Britain's commitment to ever closer union; guarantees that countries in the euro will not discriminate against those (like Britain) that remain outside the single currency; and, most controversially, limits on in-work welfare benefits being paid to EU migrants into Britain.
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The expiration of Haiti's TPS became controversial not only because the administration came under heavy pressure from humanitarian groups to continue the program but also because emails sent by a Trump administration staffer, published by The Associated Press, showed the official seeking information on how many in the Haitian TPS community had committed crimes or received social welfare benefits.
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Imperial Valley Ministries leaders recruited people by promising food and shelter, and instead forced them to beg for money for nine hours a day, six days a week and to give up their welfare benefits "for the financial benefit of the church leaders," prosecutors said in a news release Tuesday that announced the indictment had been unsealed.
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Assuming that China simply maintains welfare benefits at current levels, the population's aging could push up public spending on education, health care and pensions from 10 percent today to 17 percent of China's gross domestic product by 2035, and then 23 percent by 2050 — that's the share of gross domestic product for all government spending today.
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"I'm looking at the people who are gonna be doing the hard work for the country, who are reforming financial systems, welfare benefits ... right now I'm picking the people that Donald Trump is picking to do the heavy lifting for the country," the founder and chief investment officer of Fairholme Capital Management, which manages just under $5 billion, told CNBC.
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Related: Christmas in the Jungle: It's the Worst Time of Year for Thousands of Refugees in Calais ID-free travel within the Nordic region — long a popular magnet for migrants due to its high standards of living and generous social welfare benefits — dates back long before the Schengen accord to the 1950s, when Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, and Iceland signed a passport union.
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A poor single woman in a ghetto may not have the resources to be an ideal parent, Shelby is willing to concede; but if that is ultimately a shortcoming of our society, it adds insult to injury to structure welfare benefits (as has been done in the United States) so as to discourage nonmarital childbearing — thereby hindering her reproductive freedom.
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The academy's report provides ammunition to both sides in the contentious debate over whether immigrants raise state and local tax burdens for education, health care and other welfare benefits or whether those costs are more than compensated for through taxes paid by immigrants: For the 2011-2013 period, the net cost to state and local budgets of first generation adults is, on average, about $1,600 each.
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She said that "black men don't have that same set of ethos," using the example of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, who portrayed his sister as helplessly dependent on welfare when in fact she had worked two jobs while Thomas was in law school and only began using welfare benefits when she stopped working to care for an elderly aunt recovering from a stroke.
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The horror of what took place at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School is causing a clash of ideals for many on the right, who simultaneously rail against the expansion of the state into the lives of everyday Americans when it comes to say, food stamps or welfare benefits, but who are now voicing support for policies that would bring the "police state" into fifth-grade classrooms.
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Bernie SandersBernie SandersTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Eight Democratic presidential hopefuls to appear in CNN climate town hall Top aide Jeff Weaver lays out Sanders's path to victory MORE (I-Vt.) fired the latest shot in his feud with Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, introducing a bill that would charge large companies for the government welfare benefits that support their-low wage workers.
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So here she is in her Davos speech saying of her new approach that In practice, however, she has already retreated from a proposal to put workers on boards, plans to push ahead with cuts in corporation and inheritance taxes, and to squeeze welfare benefits; in her domestic speech, she said that, in the event of a bad deal with the EU, We would be free to strike trade deals across the world.
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Read more:Police say the man Trump recently honored as a hero during the El Paso shooting made up the whole storyNorth Carolina Republicans waited until colleagues were absent during a 9/11 memorial service to pass a controversial budget without their votesA viral video shows a Jack in the Box worker apparently mocking a deaf woman and refusing her orderA California church held homeless people captive and forced them to turn in their welfare benefits and panhandle for up to 9 hours a day, prosecutors say
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Read more:Police say the man Trump recently honored as a hero during the El Paso shooting made up the whole storyA California church held homeless people captive and forced them to turn in their welfare benefits and panhandle for up to 9 hours a day, prosecutors sayA Florida couple was denied custody of their 4-year-old son with leukemia after they 'busted' him out of a hospital and stopped his chemo treatmentsA woman says she escaped a suspected serial killer in Detroit by stabbing him with a box cutter and diving out a window
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