Writing is powerful : How this Penarth poet will be helping people across Wales A PENARTH poet has been tasked with bringing to life Wales’ Well-being of Future Generations Act says she wants to bring hope and inspire joy. Taylor Edmonds is today announced as the Future Generations Commissioner Sophie Howe’s new poet-in-residence, as the world marks Earth Day 2021. The Well-being of Future Generations Act puts a responsibility on public bodies, including Welsh Government, to take action that will not only benefit people today, but people not yet born. It requires policymakers to think about the long-term impact of their decisions, work better with people, communities, and each other, and to prevent persistent problems such as poverty, health inequalities and climate change.
Over two thirds of Wales is in favour of a basic income trial in the country. The poll, carried out by Survation and commissioned by Sophie Howe, Future Generations Commissioner for Wales, included over a thousand respondents.
Ahead of the country’s general election in early May, Future Generations is pressuring the Welsh government towards implementing more progressive measures destined to protect the economic and labor interests of the younger generations of the country, which have been remarkably affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Among these policies they included a petition to start a basic income trial.
According to Howe, a basic income could be highly beneficial for the Welsh. Howe states that a basic income could successfully address the issues that the welfare stated has failed to tackle (increase in poverty, automation and unstable jobs). Howe claims that “a basic income could be that stronger safety net which keeps people from falling through the cracks of support no
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Sep 20, 2019 @ 05:51
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Millions of children and adults are expected to strike across the globe today, inspired by Swedish activist Greta Thunberg’s call for climate action.
The strikes are happening ahead of the UN Climate Summit, which is taking place in New York on 23 September.
Climate strikers are calling for a “rapid revolution” to prevent global warming, with fossil fuels phased out fairly and swiftly and everyone has access to a safe future. The concept of “climate justice” is at the heart of their demands, so that vulnerable people aren’t hurt by the dramatic shifts required to transition to a zero carbon world.