Mirror.co.uk
Austerity policies are 'failing children on a grand scale', say leading doctors
Parentdish
The British Medical Association claims cuts to social care and welfare budgets are harming the well-being of those in the poorest families. The BMA accused the Government of 'not taking ... over the past decade by widening social inequalities. They ...
Children 'being failed by Coalition cuts': Doctors warn of widening social ...Mirror.co.uk
Government austerity measures could increase child poverty, warn doctorsNursery World (subscription)
Benefit cuts risk rise in child poverty, doctors warnThe Independent

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ABC News
IRS Hearing: Steven Miller, Ousted Head, Faces Questions From House Ways ...
Huffington Post
Many of the groups were applying for tax-exempt status as social welfare organizations, which are allowed to participate in campaign activity if that is not their primary activity. The IRS judges whether that imprecise ... The IRS said Ingram was ...
LIVE BLOG: House Ways and Means Committee HearingThe Nonprofit Quarterly

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Today in healthcare: Friday 17 May
The Guardian
The data will be sent to the Health and Social Care Information Centre where it will be linked with data from secondary care, and published in September for analysis by the NHS and other accredited organisations. .... Panelists include Jane Priestley ...

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The Guardian
Lyn Romeo appointed chief social worker for adults
The Guardian
"One of the priorities will be getting out and meeting the practitioners on the frontline, listening to what they're saying about making a difference, getting involved with the people who provide the training and education for social workers, and ...

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Costs of development drive in spotlight
People's Daily Online
City governments have been working to grant migrant workers equal access to welfare, but most said they are struggling to find the fiscal means to foot the bill. So how much will the urbanization process cost? Feng Qiaobin, a professor ... She said ...

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Bridge to independence for former foster children
Lincoln Journal Star
Extending support to age 21 would give them better access to family structures, housing, education, transportation, jobs and health care, he said. Kris said her first year was rough. And when her ... She wants her son to have more than she's had, and ...

Jamaica Gleaner
Fake deficit hawks as ideological austerity-pushers
Jamaica Gleaner
Spare corporate welfare, cut or privatise the immensely beneficial social-security system, sink Obamacare, defund education, health - all expenditures benefiting the poorer classes. They advocate these policy views on the basis not of ideology but ...

Thoughts from the first national meeting of Left Unity - Socialist Resistance
Socialist Resistance
That is a society where we are our brothers' keeper, where we do look after each other and where we look after the sick and the old and where we give our kids a good education. That central concept is absolutely crucial. The corollary of ... gains ...

Challenges to improving health care in Pakistan
IRINnews.org
That has left Pakistanis with little support for medical costs, which are responsible for more than two-thirds of major economic shocks for poor families, according to the Ministry of Social Welfare and Special Education. Rapid population growth only ...

Costs of development drive in spotlight
China Daily
City governments have been working to grant migrant workers equal access to welfare, but most said they are struggling to find the fiscal means to foot the bill. So how much will the urbanization process cost? Feng Qiaobin, a professor ... She said ...

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Australian opposition leader adopts Labor's social spending cuts
World Socialist Web Site
In his budget reply speech last night, Liberal Party opposition leader Tony Abbott embraced the deep structural cuts to welfare, health and education spending announced in the Labor government's budget. ... It included “overhauling” disability pension ...

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Budget 2013: Lean Pickings for Those Most in Need
Scoop.co.nz (press release)
Our networks of social workers, counsellors, nurses and care workers, budget advisors, community housing agencies, emergency housing services, night shelters and other advocates and support workers deal every day with people who have been left behind ...

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Insights - New Zealand Initiative
Scoop.co.nz (press release)
The Budget shows the government remains determined to continue its programme of significant welfare reform, increased accountability for outcomes in education, partial privatisation, reform of the Resource Management Act, and achieving cost savings and ...

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Mirror.co.uk
Children 'being failed by Coalition cuts': Doctors warn of widening social ...
Mirror.co.uk
Children 'being failed by Coalition cuts': Doctors warn of widening social inequalities. 17 May 2013 00:00 ... It called on the parliamentary Health and Education select committees to immediately launch an inquiry into the welfare of children in ...
Benefit cuts risk rise in child poverty, doctors warnThe Independent
Children 'failed on a grand scale' by coalitionTelegraph.co.uk

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Daily Mail
'Nimbys' halt social mobility, says Gove: Education Secretary launches attack ...
Daily Mail
Mr Gove said Sir Keith's involvement in reform of healthcare, repair of the welfare system, expansion of home ownership and attempt to improve state education over his ministerial career were reflected in an 'uncanny' way in the principal aims of ...

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Scotsman
Gregor Gall: Justice and prosperity can go together
Scotsman
He cited pensions, national insurance contributions, funding of health care and the minimum wage as examples of what is possible under the Union. ... She argued that a fairer and more prosperous Scotland could ensue whereby no tax rises would be needed ...

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The Guardian
Jon Cruddas: filling Labour's 'One Nation' policy blanks
The Guardian
3 Living standards; transport and wellbeing. 4 Stronger, safer communities; housing crisis, private rented sector. 5 Education and children, including childcare. 6 Health and care; delivering integration of health and social care. 7 Reform of the ...

The Guardian
'One Nation' Labour's policy blueprint
The Guardian
Andy Burnham, the shadow health secretary, faces the dilemma of repealing the government health reforms and integrating health and social care without imposing another top-down reorganisation. ... ministers; a legal right to the cheapest ticket ...

Australia's choice: keep hiking taxes, or grapple with our spending on health ...
The Conversation
Defence, and education spending were each around A$13 billion, or 7% of the budget. If one looks at the budget aggregates it is very clear that in order to limit spending increases, rising health care and social welfare payments are the major issue ...

Slate Magazine
Do Tea Party Groups Really Do Social Welfare Work?
Slate Magazine
Tea Party activist William Temple protests against the Affordable Care Act before the Supreme announces its decision about the constitutionality of the president's efforts on health care reform. Photo by Chris Maddaloni/CQ Roll Call/Getty Images ...

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