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Alison Pennington, a senior economist at the Centre for Future Work, pointed to the policy inconsistencies where a student who works part-time and receives Youth Allowance did not qualify for the payment but a wealthy student who lives at home and did not get Youth Allowance (due to their parents’ income) could receive it. More than 1.2 million students, pensioners, disabled people and their carers and the unemployed went without support for four weeks. But, under pressure from welfare groups, unions, the Greens and even the NSW Liberal Treasurer, the federal government extended the Disaste...
New Jersey Ratepayers Implore Board of Public Utilities to Reject Utility Cash Grab April 26, 2021, 10:50 am | in Latest $300 million demand from PSE&G and Exelon would crush New Jerseyans reeling from pandemic Trenton (April 23, 2021) — After securing a $300 million-per-year subsidy despite failing to demonstrate need, PSE&G and Exelon are back again, using the threat of closures and job losses to demand yet another round of corporate handouts paid for by New Jersey ratepayers. The New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (BPU) held evidentiary hearings on the renewal ...
jungle.world Armut greift in Türkei um sich In der Türkei verarmen immer mehr Menschen in Folge von Pandemie und Erdogans Wirtschaftspolitik: In trouble even before the coronavirus pandemic, the Turkish economy is now on the edge of a precipice. While the economy officially expanded by nearly six percent in the last three months of 2020, growth came at the expense of a government credit push that sent consumer prices soaring. The annual inflation rate had shot up to 15.6 percent by February, while the Turkish lira has lost more than half its value against the dollar since the start of 201...
I knew intellectually that nobody could live on the jobseeker payment, that only one or perhaps two houses in Australia are affordable for a single person on jobseeker, but I didn’t have a practical experience of what that could mean. Before I met Rita I didn’t know of anyone personally who was starving to death. Rita is a northern suburban mother, a whistleblower and an ardent activist. She was enticed to her first Anti-Poverty Network meeting on the allure of free pizza. She stayed because she felt the stirrings of community. At the time she was receiving $560 a fortnight and her weekl...