welfare

Universal Credit – internationally “unique” in its harshness, and headed for 7 million of us
by Ian Sinclair
Open Democracy
1 November 2017

The US has granted citizenship to one-million immigrants per year for decades, and they bring over their family members through 'chain migration'. [...]

All slaughterhouses in England will have to be fitted with CCTV cameras in a bid to improve animal welfare and enforce laws against cruelty
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New immigrants would be prevented from collecting welfare, which is in bold contrast to the 50% of all present immigrant households who currently receive welfare. [...]

Hawaii will research how it can best extract the money from the dwindling number of taxpayers who still work for a living to fund the proposed Universal Basic Income. [...]

(Photo: Russell Shaw Higgs/Creative Commons)
Hawaii has become the first state to officially begin exploring the possibility of a universal basic income (UBI) after a bill requesting the creation of a “basic economic security working group” recently passed both houses of the state legislature.

Poverty is a big deal – it affects about 41 million people in the United States every year – yet the federal government spends a huge amount of money to end poverty. How can this be? And how do we even measure poverty in the first place? This week on Words and Numbers, Antony Davies and James R. Harrigan answer these questions and delve into what can be done to help the poor.

Non-Western immigrants and their descendants, although only a small percentage of the population, have drained almost $5-billion from Danish taxpayers, which is 59% of all tax revenue. [...]

In this May 4, 2017, photo, President Trump talks to House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wis. in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, after the House pushed through a health care bill. (AP/Evan Vucci)
President Donald Trump’s budget would drive millions of people off of food stamps, part of a new wave of spending cut proposals that already are getting panned by lawmakers in both parties on Capitol Hill.

The state governments have intervened haphazardly in the health-care insurance business so pervasively and for so long that the whole setup now dictates a host of requirements that make no sense except as answers to the prayers of special-interest groups and rent seekers.