A welfare state in reality - The Nation
The Nation
The services that the welfare state provides include education, housing, sustenance, health services, unemployment insurance, days off for sickness or injuries, additional income in special circumstances and equivalent wages through wage controls ...

Dallas Morning News
Jonathan Cohn: The hell of American day care
Dallas Morning News
At no point has a well-organized public day care system ever been considered the social ideal. The idea that it is preferable to support low-income women to stay home with their children has become toxic in American politics. Since the passage of ...

Some advice for B.C. politicians
Victoria News
Stop downloading our social safety net onto people struggling to keep afloat. · Start being ... Return to Canada a government that puts, health, education and welfare of all our citizens first. · Get rid of ... Take care of business at home – not ...

Wall Street Journal (blog)
Sneak Peek at Jacob Lew's New Signature?
Wall Street Journal (blog)
Thanks for reminding me that our education system has failed too….thanks to the welfare system and what it breeds. ... Radical islamists are bombing our people, we are financing terror in the middle east, the stimulus didn't work, unemployment is ...

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The Case of the Taken Baby - Patheos
Patheos (blog)
But the couple has since claimed to any news agency willing to broadcast it, that they were unhappy with the care that their son received so they left Sutter – without taking the time to be officially discharged, and against medical advice – and went ...

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Portugal Unveils Budget Cuts
Wall Street Journal
It also said Portugal pays public employees too much, particularly in the education, security and health-care fields, for the quality of services they render. Mr. Passos ... Labor leaders accuse the government of dismantling Portugal's social welfare ...

Solid job gains in April ease fears about economy
The Seattle Times (blog)
(May 3, 2013, by corporate welfare donor) MORE. So much for the theory that increasing ... Education and health services gained 44,000. Average hourly pay rose. But because ... Consumers have been spending more even though their take-home pay was ...

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Beacon Hill Roll Call
WickedLocal beverly
LIMIT WORK EXEMPTION TO 25 PERCENT (H 3400) House 31-126, rejected an amendment that would limit to 25 percent the number of welfare recipients who can be exempted from the law that requires some recipients to perform a work-related activity in ...
Beacon Hill Roll Call, May 3, 2013Wicked Local- Medfield

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And Tip Was No Bargain, Either
Esquire (blog)
(The party is now run by the guys who would have roasted Reagan on a spit for making the deal with O'Neill on Social Security, and the overwhelming majority of the present House Republican caucus would have voted it down.) It is here where we must ...

San Diego Gay & Lesbian News
RGOD2: LGBT, you are of infinite value!
San Diego Gay & Lesbian News
Unemployment in regions of this divided society was in extremely high yet my generation had the opportunity get free education, a sound healthcare system based on the welfare state. I was the first member of my family to attend university and travel ...

Kids Belong, a new church-based foster care and adoption effort, seeks to ...
Muskegon Chronicle - MLive.com
MUSKEGON COUNTY, MI – On a Facebook page, the smiling faces of children looking for a permanent home scatter the social media site alongside posts about adoption myths. "Meet Fred and Sandra. Get the word ... The exchange is a project of the Judson ...

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Stephen Kinsella: We will have to change meaning of 'elderly' to defuse ...
Irish Independent
In the coming decades it will simply not be possible to continually pay pensions for those who retire and subsidise health care at the same time. But politics is about pushing resources towards those who reward the powerful with office. ... This means ...

Media Matters for America (blog)
5 Reasons Media Should Be Wary Of Heritage Foundation's New Immigration ...
Media Matters for America (blog)
Wallace said that the report will show that the proposed Senate immigration reform bill will "cost the Treasury billions of dollars" because "people would be eligible for Obamacare and various welfare programs." In fact, as Wallace himself noted ...

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Unhappy with your life? You might be French
MinnPost.com
The French consistently rank as some of the least upbeat citizens on the globe, despite a 35-hour work week and generous social benefits that range from free preschools and swimming pools to universities and healthcare. A 2011 WIN-Gallup poll revealed ...

Globe and Mail
Ontario's 'fair society' rhetoric starts to drown out the mantra of austerity
Globe and Mail
Claw back less employment income from welfare recipients? How about that ... Then there are the social-conscience measures that the NDP did not ask for, but Ms. Wynne delivered anyway – modest new sums for aboriginal housing and education, and for ...
NDP leader Andrea Horwath should support 'orange' budget: EditorialToronto Star
MPP Bill Walker sees little in Ontario budget for rural residents.Bayshore Broadcasting News Centre
Ont. budget draws mixed reviewsChatham Daily News

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Speech: Investing in people is the best investment we can make
EU News
I want to thank you all for your active participation and constructive suggestions, and your enthusiasm to work together and collectively implement the policy proposals in the Social Investment Package. This conference has shown that there are some ...

UKIP come knocking: what's going on, and how to respond?
Conservative Home
It's also groups that mainstream parties have struggled to connect with: the young, first time voters; the concerned but apolitical mothers who so often deal in the family with the bread and butter social issues of childcare, education, health, and ...

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Task Force for Abused Children
Indian Country Today Media Network
Because the ICWA is a federal statute, successful implementation will be best ensured through strong, coordinated support from the Department of Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs; Department of Health and Social Services, Administration for Children ...

Australia: The fraud of Labor's NDIS and Gonski “reforms”
World Socialist Web Site
As has happened already with the semi-privatised healthcare and childcare sectors, those powerful corporate lobby groups that will emerge in the disability “industry” will sabotage any proposal to improve publicly-provided services, which would ...

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The Economics of Over-Ripe Capitalism
CounterPunch
... Theology during the Dirty War. PLUS: Jeffrey St. Clair on the GAME OF DRONES; Chris Ketcham on the ORIGINS OF MONOPOLIES; Kristin Kolb on the EDUCATION PRIVATIZERS; and Mike Whitney on BERNANKE'S SUBPRIME BONANZA. And much more ..... Almost half of ...