• The last few decades have witnessed dramatic improvement in the condition of the world's poorest people. (worldbank.org)
  • The Region has some of the world's richest and the world's poorest countries in Africa and in the Gulf Region. (who.int)
  • The people of Africa are hard at work building a more hopeful future for their continent. (worldbank.org)
  • For Africa and the poorest countries in the world a critical source of development funding comes from the International Development Association or IDA. (worldbank.org)
  • Paul Wolfowitz, President of the World Bank, congratulated Ghana on its fiftieth anniversary that it has become one of the best performers economically in Sub-Saharan Africa, and is expected to meet the Millennium Development Goal to cut poverty in half. (worldbank.org)
  • He concluded by saying that Ghana should inspire Africa by aiming higher, moving faster, taking bigger and bolder steps to achieve the future that the people of Ghana deserve. (worldbank.org)
  • Paul Wolfowitz, President of the World Bank, makes the case for ending poverty in our lifetime, especially in Africa. (worldbank.org)
  • As is always the case with public-health crises in America - the only industrialized country without some form of universal healthcare - it's the poor who suffer the most. (consortiumnews.com)
  • America s lynching epidemic was caused by the unreal fear that extrajudicial murder was the only preventative measure white people had against the violent rapists and murderers that they imagined us to be. (ronpaulforums.com)
  • Even liberal white people believe that America has a class problem and not a race problem. (ronpaulforums.com)
  • To be poor in America, he wrote elsewhere, was to live in "a separate culture, another nation, with its own way of life. (thebaffler.com)
  • In fact, in any given year in America, nearly 12 million people will spend some time in city and county jails, not convicted of anything, just waiting to go to court. (globalcitizen.org)
  • Predatory Financial Services: The High Cost of Being Poor in America Howard Karger Chapter 8. (routledge.com)
  • 1965, the flow of immigrants to the Results --In general, the foreign-born population was younger, less likely to United States has shifted away from have a high school diploma, more likely to be poor, heavily concentrated in the Europe to Latin America and Asia. (cdc.gov)
  • An NDN person in occupied America": Tommy Pico and Place. (lu.se)
  • However, experience shows that increased productivity and incomes do not automatically translate into improved nutritional status of poor rural people, especially women, young people and children. (ifad.org)
  • APOLPH: This isn't the first time Seattle's city council has gone big to save the city for people of all incomes. (wunc.org)
  • The poorest adults-those with incomes below 139% of the federal poverty level-were the most likely to not take medication as prescribed to save money. (cdc.gov)
  • These bylaws are preventing people from being able to make efforts to lift themselves out of poverty. (pivotlegal.org)
  • This means that supportive policies can go a long way towards providing the conditions in which people can lift themselves out of poverty. (ifad.org)
  • Seizing the moment of our 50 th anniversary in 2016, Community Legal Services (CLS) is strengthening our unique model by launching a new, high-impact giving initiative focused on individuals. (clsphila.org)
  • see also EJI, " Justice Department Warns State and Local Courts Against Fine and Fee Practices That Punish the Poor "(March 18, 2016). (eji.org)
  • President Donald Trump, who took a hard line on illegal immigration during the 2016 election campaign, has also sought to curtail legal immigration. (medscape.com)
  • Yet they can also perpetuate ethnic tensions, gender discrimination, biases and violence against the poorest and most vulnerable people. (mongabay.com)
  • For even as she upheld important rights for vulnerable populations as a judge on the D.C. Court of Appeals and then a Supreme Court justice, she also argued that the right to abortion was at the very heart of the legal equality between men and women. (americamagazine.org)
  • in contrast to VIP (very important people), the project minted the VUP acronym, which stands for Vulnerable and Under-represented Persons . (lu.se)
  • This practice also disproportionately impacts Black and Brown people-who, due to racism and deep biases in policing, are subject to traffic stops and citations at much higher rates than their white peers. (aclunc.org)
  • However, some people voluntarily became nobi in order to escape crushing poverty during poor harvests and famines. (wikipedia.org)
  • Survey data shows that nearly 50 percent of women who seek abortions live under the federal poverty line, while many more hover precariously above it. (consortiumnews.com)
  • It is important to note that the federal poverty line is a poor measure for adequate income to meet basic needs. (legalaiddc.org)
  • In the District 300 fewer families - a decline of 2.6% -- were on TANF at the end of the time period, despite significant increases in poverty and unemployment. (legalaiddc.org)
  • Many of the trans people surveyed participated in job training and educational programming, likely to make up for missed opportunities before incarceration (such as educational exclusion and higher risk for unemployment ). (prisonpolicy.org)
  • It is important to do research on people that are working, but yet are poor, because this would shed a light on such workers who might disappear from statistics on social exclusion, such as those on unemployment. (lu.se)
  • friends and peers, whereas poverty, unemployment, cultural norms and the legal environment form some of The World Health Organization (WHO) defines violence the overarching factors ( 6 ). (who.int)
  • It is cruel to punish people for being poor, especially during a pandemic that has had catastrophic impacts on low-income Californians. (aclunc.org)
  • Do North Carolina Laws Over Traffic Fines Unfairly Punish the Poor? (legalreader.com)
  • denial of sovereignty to indigenous people and tribes and failure to protect voting rights and ending the constitutional right to abortion. (consortiumnews.com)
  • In states that limit or ban abortion, poor women and others face an immediate threat of heightened health complications, as well as the long-term damage associated with abortion restrictions. (consortiumnews.com)
  • Indeed, data collected by economists in the decades after Roe v. Wade indicates that the greater the limits on abortion, the more poverty for parents and the less education for their children. (consortiumnews.com)
  • Worse yet, the 13 states that had trigger laws designed to outlaw abortion in the event of a Roe reversal were already among the poorest in the country. (consortiumnews.com)
  • A cross-sectional epidemiological study with a convenience sample of adolescents and women with pregnancy due to sexual violence and requesting legal abortion between August 1994 and December 2012, at Hospital PĂ©rola Byington, SĂŁo Paulo, Brazil. (bvsalud.org)
  • Few research have documented the personal trajectories and decision-making processes of women who resort to legal abortion. (bvsalud.org)
  • From primary data collected from patients enrolled in a referral hospital for the care of women and adolescents victims of sexual violence and legal termination of pregnancy, with the outcome variable analyzed as abortion, logistic regression was applied and the use of stepwise backward method observed that where only when the sex offender is typified as known explains the withdrawal of the procedure. (bvsalud.org)
  • The known sex offender was found to be associated with a two-fold greater chance of the woman giving up legal abortion. (bvsalud.org)
  • In addition to being a civil rights leader, Tom has always been a friend of the anti-poverty movement. (legalaiddc.org)
  • Despite concerns expressed by anti-poverty advocates (including in this blog), there is evidence that the Recovery Act has made a difference for people who are struggling to survive at the bottom of the economic scale. (legalaiddc.org)
  • EAPN European Anti-Poverty Network (+ four linked third parties). (lu.se)
  • They're challenging an injunction sought by Vancouver's Parks Board that would, if successful, lead to the eviction of more than 200 homeless people from the park, where many have lived since July. (pivotlegal.org)
  • Black people are also over-represented in the homeless population making it more likely that they will miss court notifications sent by mail. (aclunc.org)
  • APOLPH: John likes Seattle's latest idea - tax the people who make more than $250,000 a year to raise $140 million a year for things like affordable housing, services for the homeless and transit, so people can get to work from the places where they can afford to live. (wunc.org)
  • It leaves millions of local people literally homeless, and it raises the prices of food and basic services for the local population. (dissidentvoice.org)
  • I went within a month from having a nanny and living in a nice house and everything to just really abject poverty. (technologyreview.com)
  • FLORIDA: When you no longer share public space with people of different classes and different ethnic and racial groups - when you have an abject homelessness problem and problem of poverty, you don't live in a good society anymore. (wunc.org)
  • As the country awaits an historic Supreme Court decision in Obergefell v. Hodges that could bring marriage equality to all states, same-sex couples who are already married and living in poverty have faced extreme financial hardship because of discriminatory actions by the Social Security Administration. (glad.org)
  • Paul Wolfowitz, President of the World Bank, remarked that the Gender Equality Millennium Development Goal is a central component of our overall mission of fighting poverty and empowering women in their education and opportunity for a better future. (worldbank.org)
  • How Neoliberalism Subverts Equality and Perpetuates Poverty in our Nation's Schools Jameson T. Brewer and Paul S. Myers Chapter 17. (routledge.com)
  • In order to achieve equality, the state´s (legal) responsibility is to both respect the individual´s freedom, and to ensure positive measures to break the discriminatory cycles in which both private and public sector risk generating and reproducing. (lu.se)
  • Examples of societal structures subjecting women, children and people with a foreign background other than Danish will be used in order to raise relevant foundational questions in an equality perspective. (lu.se)
  • Footnote 1 In 2017, nearly 821 million people (about 10.9% of the world population) faced chronic food deprivation (FAO 2018 ). (springer.com)
  • These children are more likely as adults about 12% of children were sexually abused in 2017 alone to suffer from poor mental health, drug and alcohol abuse, ( 5 ). (who.int)
  • Her conviction and imprisonment destroy the very possibility of legal representation for those accused falsely by the government. (sfbayview.com)
  • This act in itself destroys the possibility of legal representation for any whom governmental authority sets out to railroad into prison. (sfbayview.com)
  • As attorney Josh Saunders from Brooklyn Defender Services, which provides legal representation to people who cannot afford to retain an attorney, explained on John Oliver's Last Week Tonight episode on bail , "Our clients work in jobs where if you're absent, you're fired. (globalcitizen.org)
  • My research addresses topics such as the role of documentary film for activism, representation of marginalised groups and legal issues in documentary films, community videos and empowerment, and cultural and identity politics through documentary films. (lu.se)
  • The ICT infrastructure in EMR countries has witnessed rapid development and sustained improvement as has been demonstrated by the latest figures and statistics on governance and legal framework, connectivity and Internet penetration, personal computer availability for both home use and business applications, training and skills development and applications. (who.int)
  • The poor governance in Cameroonian health districts stems from a lack of clear and consistent operating procedures for district governing bodies and health services, power imbalance between district managers and community representatives, and insufficient knowledge of the existing legal and regulatory fr. (bvsalud.org)
  • Based upon a number of subjective well -being (SWB) surveys and neuroscience studies, people 's remembered emotions are usually rosier than people 's experienced emotions, and people are motivated to make choices based upon their predicted emotions which tend to coincide with their emotional memories. (justia.com)
  • When things are legal, people tend to think it is safe. (freethoughtblogs.com)
  • From what we can tell from this small sample, the trans people surveyed tend to be more diverse in terms of their race/ethnicity and sexual orientation, and skewed younger in age. (prisonpolicy.org)
  • One huge problem I see with a lot of crowdfunding campaigns is that most people's social networks tend to consist of people who are in similar financial situations. (metafilter.com)
  • This report, based largely on more than 75 interviews conducted with people in the states of Alabama, Georgia, and Mississippi during the second half of 2013, describes patterns of abuse and financial hardship inflicted by the "offender-funded" model of privatized probation that prevails in well over 1,000 courts across the US. (hrw.org)
  • While the Supreme Court's grim decision means more pain and hardship for women, transgender and gender non-confirming people, it signals even more: the validation of a half-century-old strategy by Christian nationalists to remake the very fabric of this nation. (consortiumnews.com)
  • In fact, the business of many private probation companies is built largely on the willingness of courts to discriminate against poor offenders who can only afford to pay their fines in installments over time. (hrw.org)
  • Earlier this week, a federal lawsuit was filed against the Commissioner of North Carolina's Division of Motor Vehicles, Torre Jessup, after two South Carolina residents claimed that the state's "practice of revoking drivers' licenses of people who can't pay their traffic fines and court costs is unconstitutional because it violates the rights to due process and equal protection under the 14th amendment. (legalreader.com)
  • However, the law fails to make sure drivers can actually pay those fines and court costs, which is a big reason why the American Civil Liberties Union, the Southern Poverty Law Center, and the Southern Coalition for Social Justice all decided to file the lawsuit. (legalreader.com)
  • Despite Supreme Court rulings that ban debtor's prisons, hundreds of people are jailed each year in Alabama because they are unable to pay court fees and fines. (eji.org)
  • For low-income people, fees and fines for traffic and parking violations often add up quickly to crushing debt burdens that they cannot pay. (eji.org)
  • The problem is especially acute in Alabama, where towns and cities grappling with structural poverty rely more heavily on court fees and fines because they are barred from imposing new local taxes to pay for basic municipal services. (eji.org)
  • While individuals who have the financial means to pay fees and fines but refuse to do so may be incarcerated for willful nonpayment, the law is absolutely clear that the government cannot imprison a person solely because of their inability to pay a fine or fee. (eji.org)
  • Local authorities throughout Alabama nonetheless continue to jail people who are too poor to pay fines and fees. (eji.org)
  • EJI has challenged this practice, but people continue to be imprisoned-some for as many as 16 months-because they were too poor to pay court fees and fines. (eji.org)
  • We believe this can directly impact recidivism, keep thousands of people from going to jail, and help low-income people manage limited resources more effectively by removing the threat of arrest and imprisonment that menaces people who are unable to pay court fees and fines. (eji.org)
  • For decades, it's championed a vision of "family values" grounded in the nuclear family and a version of community life meant to tightly control sex and sexuality, while sanctioning attacks on women and LGBTQIA people. (consortiumnews.com)
  • Poor people (and especially poor women), these books argue, are in fact seen too much -they are surveilled and imprisoned, monitored and fined. (thebaffler.com)
  • Formerly the National Senior Citizens Law Center, since 1972 we've worked for access to affordable health care and economic security for older adults with limited resources, focusing especially on populations that have traditionally lacked legal protection such as women, people of color, LGBT individuals, and people with limited English proficiency. (glad.org)
  • In us supporters, you see before you a coalition of women, of black people, of Spanish speaking people and other young people who support her. (americanarchive.org)
  • I join the nation's celebration of a heroic American attorney who, against all odds, employed her top-flight legal education and disciplined mind to convince an all-male Supreme Court in the early 1970s that the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment ought to protect women, too. (americamagazine.org)
  • He cites as key factors leadership and accountability, respect for women, civil society, the private sector, and legal empowerment of the poor. (worldbank.org)
  • However, the handbook explores how rather than alleviating poverty, it has instead exacerbated poverty and pre-existing inequalities - privatizing the services of social welfare and educational institutions, transforming the state from a benevolent to a punitive state, and criminalizing poor women, racial and ethnic minorities, and immigrants. (routledge.com)
  • Third, more women than men have the sole responsibility for their children, [v] and are at risk of poverty traps. (lu.se)
  • The failure of states to meet their legal obligations to address gendered violence under, for example, the Istanbul Convention, contributes to this situation and fails to ensure the rights and freedoms of women. (lu.se)
  • Through targeted advocacy, litigation, and the trainings and resources we provide to local advocates, we ensure access to the social safety net programs that poor seniors depend on, including Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, and Supplemental Security Income (SSI). (glad.org)
  • Medicaid also is available to people who are 65 years old or are blind or disabled. (idaho.gov)
  • The Medicare-Medicaid Coordinated plan (MMCP) is for people who are eligible and enrolled in both Medicare and Medicaid. (idaho.gov)
  • In that context, we offer a simple, durable, yet flexible contractual framework for local people, extractive industries and other key stakeholders to improve the conditions for negotiating and operating projects on the ground. (mongabay.com)
  • Policies affect every dimension of the institutional and legal context in which poor rural people pursue their livelihoods. (ifad.org)
  • In that context, bear in mind that, in his concurring opinion, Justice Clarence Thomas suggested that the Dobbs decision gives the Supreme Court legal precedent to strike down other previously settled landmark civil rights jurisprudence, including Griswold v. Connecticut (access to contraception), Lawrence v. Texas (protection of same-sex relationships), and Obergefell v. Hodges (protection of same-sex marriage). (consortiumnews.com)
  • The Routledge Handbook of Poverty in the United States provides an authoritative overview of the relationship of poverty with the rise of neoliberal capitalism in the context of globalization. (routledge.com)
  • Community Legal Services is recognized nationally as one of the best legal services programs in the country. (clsphila.org)
  • Given the nature of this class - elderly or disabled people living below the poverty level and scattered across the country- the likelihood of them having the means to file individual lawsuits is low," said McIntyre. (glad.org)
  • trees help to lock in rich topsoil and act as a purifying filter, especially important in a country where about half of rural people do not have access to clean drinking water. (pbase.com)
  • All the news outlets had this narrative that it s the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere and has 2 percent forest cover. (pbase.com)
  • To any citizen of this country who figures himself as responsible - and particularly those of you who deal with the minds and hearts of young people - must be prepared to "go for broke. (truthout.org)
  • Tennessee's prohibition on local hire laws appears to be the first of its kind to be implemented in the country, according to Ben Beach, legal director at the Partnership for Working Families, which has advocated for local and targeted hiring laws for over a decade. (usw.org)
  • So these are people who are already going to be under the poverty line, and ultimately you're going to take the time rather than your family going hungry. (globalcitizen.org)
  • We note with great concern that one fourth of the world's urban population is living below the poverty line. (un-documents.net)
  • This is generally in line with other studies which have found that trans people of color have especially high lifetime rates of incarceration. (prisonpolicy.org)
  • They work, but earn wages that leave them on the verge on the poverty line. (lu.se)
  • There is an increasing social trend of working people at risk or below the poverty line, according to the new project Working and Yet Poor (WorkYP). (lu.se)
  • The United States Supreme Court has ruled that a person sentenced to probation cannot then be incarcerated simply for failing to pay a fine that they genuinely cannot afford. (hrw.org)
  • It explains how some courts and probation companies combine to jail offenders who fall behind on payments they cannot afford to make, in spite of clear legal protections meant to prohibit this. (hrw.org)
  • Millions of families are not "poor" for guidelines purposes, but cannot afford adequate housing, food or other basics. (legalaiddc.org)
  • Pro Bono Net, Inc. does not provide legal help. (probono.net)
  • And when the foremost authority on women's rights says so, many people listen. (americamagazine.org)
  • Greater Boston Legal Services is the primary provider of free, non-criminal legal assistance in the Greater Boston area. (idealist.org)
  • We are the oldest and largest legal services program in New England. (idealist.org)
  • Throughout our history, we have been committed to our mission: to provide high quality legal services to as many poor people as possible. (idealist.org)
  • In addition, our Cambridge and Somerville Legal Services Office (CASLS) offers legal assistance in all of these areas to residents of Cambridge, Somerville and surrounding towns. (idealist.org)
  • A growing group of lawyers are uncovering, navigating, and fighting the automated systems that deny the poor housing, jobs, and basic services. (technologyreview.com)
  • Access to modern renewable energy services is a key factor in eradicating poverty and ensuring food security. (ifad.org)
  • With the mounting awareness of the unmet demand for youth financial services and the growing evidence that serving young people is viable, there is also a need to assess and document the implications for rural areas. (ifad.org)
  • A comprehensive 2008 study of the access to legal services for the poor in Indiana shows that about 86 percent of those living in poverty reported at least one legal problem. (ebglaw.com)
  • Support legal services. (clsphila.org)
  • When you support excellent legal services, you change someone's life. (clsphila.org)
  • While the need for effective legal services is immense, traditional funding sources continue to shrink. (clsphila.org)
  • The Empire Justice Center , a civil legal services program in New York has called on the State to create a pilot civil Gideon program along the lines recently implemented in California. (legalaiddc.org)
  • This plan includes home and community based services through waivers for aged and disabled people and those with a developmental disability. (idaho.gov)
  • Jessica Vaughan, director of policy studies at the Center for Immigration Studies, which favors immigration restrictions, said she does not believe the draft rule intends to deter people from accessing services. (medscape.com)
  • About two thirds of all reports to Child Protective Services were made by professionals who are mandated to report maltreatment (eg, educators, law enforcement personnel, social services personnel, legal professionals, day care providers, medical or mental health personnel, foster care providers). (msdmanuals.com)
  • Unhoused people are much more likely to receive a civil assessment fee because, without a stable mailing address, housing instability may prevent them from receiving notifications about citations or court dates," said Brandon Greene, racial and economic justice director at the ACLU of Northern California. (aclunc.org)
  • Mr. Stevenson's work fighting poverty and challenging racial discrimination in the criminal justice system has won him numerous awards. (theworkofthepeople.com)
  • In this brief tour through the lives of the down-and-out, Harrington chronicled the problem of poverty in a mass consumer society, bringing to public awareness the lives of tens of millions of people who lived in staggering want, despite the wealth of the broader postwar world. (thebaffler.com)
  • Given that an estimated 3.5% of the population is lesbian, gay, or bisexual, and that the poverty rate in that community is higher than average, there are likely to be as many as a thousand putative class members. (glad.org)
  • 2. Wish to stress that this is a special moment in the development of human settlements, when half of the world's 6 billion people will be living in cities and the world is facing the unprecedented growth of urban population, mainly in the developing world. (un-documents.net)
  • The LGBTQ+ population is overrepresented at every stage of the criminal legal system. (prisonpolicy.org)
  • Evidence suggests that lesbian, gay, bisexual, and trans youth - and especially trans youth of color - are at especially high risk for contact with the criminal legal system compared to the general U.S. population. (prisonpolicy.org)
  • Using the law as a catalyst for positive social change, Pivot Legal Society works to improve the lives of marginalized communities. (pivotlegal.org)
  • We have a long history in the US of giving people involuntary medical treatment and using mental institutions to lock up people who are "different" or threatening to social norms," says Spade. (thenation.com)
  • Traditional or customary social and legal systems have long emphasized community management of ecosystems rather than individual or state centric ownership. (mongabay.com)
  • Most interestingly, he applied his Marxist Zionism to the history and vocabulary of the language: "The poverty from which it suffers results from social and psychological causes. (marxists.org)
  • The lawsuit itself was filed by the American Civil Liberties Union, the Southern Poverty Law Center, and the Southern Coalition for Social Justice on behalf of Seti Johnson and Sharee Smoot. (legalreader.com)
  • The poor are trapped within a social panopticon that permits and feeds on their constant observation. (thebaffler.com)
  • Further, working conditions such as wages and social protection coverage are poor, even in the most advanced high-income countries. (wunrn.com)
  • With parts focusing on the lived experience of the poor, social justice and human rights frameworks - as opposed to welfare rights models - and the role of helping professions such as social work, health and education, this comprehensive handbook is a vital reference for anyone working with those in poverty, whether directly or at a macro level. (routledge.com)
  • So many, and they are mostly center or center left (sic) people who want to head out of la-la land and end up in some paradise where their Social Security earnings and savings and investment accounts can stretch so they can lie in, again, someone else's paradise. (dissidentvoice.org)
  • Sounds great, but you'd probably need some kind of national scheme to make it really effective - make sure that not just people who know how to do social media marketing can raise money - heck, maybe you could have everyone chip in a little bit - not a lot, but just enough to make sure, on average, everyone's covered. (metafilter.com)
  • The project will analyse seven representative countries (Sweden, Italy, The Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany and Poland), selected on the basis of their geographical area, as well as their different social systems and legal orders. (lu.se)
  • Each local (national) unit is composed of experts in labour law, social security, industrial relations, economics, sociology, social rights and poverty in general. (lu.se)
  • The practice of California courts paying for the costs of a massive criminal legal system on the backs of the same communities it already over polices and overcharges is perverse," said Manuel Galindo, carceral debt organizer at the Debt Collective. (aclunc.org)
  • Every year, US courts sentence several hundred thousand people to probation and place them under the supervision of for-profit companies for months or years at a time. (hrw.org)
  • Conflict enters the picture well before the courts do, as people argue over the Constitution's meaning in their everyday lives. (justia.com)
  • Conversely, policies that do not create opportunities, or that exclusively reflect the interests of other economic players, can be an insuperable barrier or an unbridgeable gulf - roadblocks barring the way out of the poverty trap. (ifad.org)
  • In her work as a civil lawyer and a poverty lawyer, her cases have always come down to the same things: representing people who've lost access to basic needs, like housing, food, education, work, or health care. (technologyreview.com)
  • It is no different than a lawyer defending a person accused of murder being enfolded within the crime imputed to the defendant by virtue of having served as his or her legal counsel. (sfbayview.com)
  • Mr. Stevenson is a widely acclaimed public interest lawyer who has dedicated his career to helping the poor, the incarcerated and the condemned. (theworkofthepeople.com)
  • Two of the most common legal needs low income neighbors face are home foreclosure and eviction. (ebglaw.com)
  • The access and allocation framework helps one to examine if and in how far the literature of the past decade meets more systemic approaches to food security as elaborated by scholars critical about simplistic perspectives on hunger and poverty. (springer.com)
  • My own sub-project here focuses on the extent to which ICTs enable new possibilities for voice and empowerment among different groups of people. (lu.se)
  • The problem is, it does not work, and instead the people who are targeted are not those who are actually most dangerous, but those who are already considered "suspicious" in culture that's racist, xenophobic and anti-immigrant. (thenation.com)
  • While economic abuse is a long-standing problem, digital banking has made it easier to open accounts and take out loans in a victim's name, says Carla Sanchez-Adams, an attorney at Texas RioGrande Legal Aid. (technologyreview.com)
  • Passing laws banning it will not of course solve the underlying problem of poverty but it may prevent poor people from being tempted to enroll their children in it. (freethoughtblogs.com)
  • Reorienting its national economy towards a global logic, US domestic policies have promoted a market-based strategy of economic development and growth as the obvious solution to alleviating poverty, affecting approaches to the problem discursively, politically, economically, culturally and experientially. (routledge.com)
  • Court debt and its consequences prolong and deepen cycles of poverty and criminal legal system involvement. (aclunc.org)
  • They are the most recent populations once again regarded as the "wretched of the earth," considered excess and treated as human refuse, and preyed upon by the criminal legal system, private probationary companies and the financial elite who have brought back the debtors' prison. (truthout.org)
  • Too many people are menaced by a criminal legal system that tends to treat you better if you're rich and guilty than if you're poor and innocent. (eji.org)
  • 1 The Survey of Prison Inmates data adds to this previous work to provide a clearer picture of the actual lived experiences of incarcerated trans people, giving us a window in which to observe - and subsequently address - what trans people face behind bars and what factors may contribute to the likelihood trans people will come into contact with the criminal legal system. (prisonpolicy.org)
  • It also argues that the fee structure of offender-funded probation is inherently discriminatory against poor offenders, and imposes the greatest financial burden on those who are least able to afford to pay. (hrw.org)
  • In Danish legal analyses on measures taken to address Covid-19, these discriminatory patterns have however, been neglected. (lu.se)
  • The local hire ordinance, known as Amendment 3, sought to make sure that the city's poorest residents saw some benefit portions of the city's building boom by leveraging the Nashville's government's contracts with private businesses in an attempt to reduce local poverty, which stands at nearly 20 percent for adults and at roughly 30 percent for children in the Nashville area. (usw.org)
  • Many regions of the world have made significant progress to improve living standards and reduce poverty. (worldbank.org)
  • It was bad enough that children are boxing at all but it appears that it is a way for poor people to earn money. (freethoughtblogs.com)
  • The impact of CRLA's litigation has touched the lives of literally millions of low-income individuals, improving conditions for farm workers, new immigrants, single parents, school children, the elderly, people with disabilities, and entire communities. (probono.net)
  • There is an urgent need for action, because thousands of people living in extreme poverty, many of them children, die every day from preventable diseases. (worldbank.org)
  • Under his leadership, EJI has won major legal challenges eliminating excessive and unfair sentencing, exonerating innocent death row prisoners, confronting abuse of the incarcerated and the mentally ill and aiding children prosecuted as adults. (theworkofthepeople.com)
  • Aristide might have been just another disenfranchised, illiterate commoner were it not for his mother, a devout Roman Catholic who saw education as the means by which her children could rise above poverty. (encyclopedia.com)
  • provide a daily snack and free transport for poor children. (who.int)
  • The Department of Homeland Security draft policy, first reported by Reuters last week, would allow immigration officers reviewing applications for permanent residency to consider whether foreign-born people seeking to live in the United States sought or received a range of public benefits for themselves or their dependents, including American-born children. (medscape.com)
  • Omolara Uwemedimo, the Thomases' eldest daughter and the baby Akingbade Thomas was carrying at the time she received government aid, is now a 36-year-old pediatrician who treats poor children in New York. (medscape.com)
  • Conditional Cash Transfer (CCTs) programmes provide cash to poor households who meet certain health and education conditions such as regular school attendance and health check-ups for children at the clinic. (bvsalud.org)
  • People who commit violence against children who they have no connection to or responsibility for (eg, as in school shootings) are guilty of assault, murder, and so forth but legally are not committing child abuse. (msdmanuals.com)
  • We work with communities to make sure people are informed about their rights. (aclunc.org)
  • By supporting CLS attorneys as they carry out the work of our nationally-recognized program, you are making a crucial difference for people in their darkest hours, when they have no one else to speak for them and nowhere else to turn. (clsphila.org)
  • Working with related organizations amplifies the effect of our legal work, and we maintain close relationships with over 200 local and national organizations. (clsphila.org)
  • Sweden has a quite low rate of people in-work, while at-risk-of-poverty (7.0%), especially if compared to some of the other participating countries (Luxembourg 13.5%, Germany 9.1%, Italy 12.2%, Poland 9.7%), nonetheless there are sectors and workers in Sweden who have been facing these problems. (lu.se)
  • In-work poverty may be the results of different types of problems, for instance, issues related to the labour market, the welfare state or the education system. (lu.se)
  • One of the main features of the project is that such expertise is combined in the understanding of in-work poverty and in the elaboration of policy proposals. (lu.se)
  • As opposed to a 'cut and run' situation of quick profit and plunder, these enterprises fare far better when investors, operators and local people find common ground to cooperate and search benefits. (mongabay.com)
  • His influential 1984 book, "The Evolution of Cooperation," applied game theory to political science in an effort to uncover why people cooperate and how to promote cooperative behavior even when there are immediate incentives to selfish actions. (harvard.edu)
  • Paul Wolfowitz, President of the World Bank, reminded participants that it is important to remember the more than 1 billion people worldwide struggling to survive on less than $1 a day. (worldbank.org)
  • They govern resource use remain today for hundreds of millions of people, although mostly unaccounted for or mixed and confused within modern legal systems. (mongabay.com)
  • Worker advocates in Tennessee say that preemption laws have repeatedly stymied some of their most important efforts to tackle poverty and working conditions at the local level. (usw.org)
  • Other legal needs include, for example, assistance for victims of fraud, drafting health care powers of attorney, family law matters including child custody and support, and creating guardianships for those who are cognitively impaired. (ebglaw.com)
  • Terry Du Bose recently posted the following letter from a third person, who used to SELL health insurance, on the USA.CAN listserv ([email protected]). (tripod.com)
  • Most people believe that if they purchase a health insurance policy they are covered for life. (tripod.com)
  • As people in the group get older and have more health problems the expense goes up and possibly profits go down. (tripod.com)
  • The basic plan is for people who are in good health and don't generally have disabilities or special health needs. (idaho.gov)
  • The enhanced plan is for people with more complex health needs and medical conditions, disabilities, or special health needs, and for those over the age of 65. (idaho.gov)
  • 4. Reconfirm our determination to address at all levels the deteriorating environmental conditions that threaten the health and quality of life of billions of people. (un-documents.net)
  • It is supremely fucked up that a kickstarter for health care is something that exists, doubly so that it exists because people need it. (metafilter.com)
  • These systems represent the backbone of the national health system, being the glue that ties all the components together.e-health (use of information technology and telecommunications in health) has 3 basic elements: ICT infrastructure, health and biomedical knowledge and people (users). (who.int)
  • Legal regulation project in the field of health food. (who.int)
  • The government could factor in use of public benefits, including food aid, home heating assistance, subsidies for health insurance premiums, and government pre-school programs, when deciding if a person is likely to become a "public charge. (medscape.com)
  • The sites that processed Libby vermiculite will be evaluated by (1) identifying ways people could have been exposed to asbestos in the past and ways that people could be exposed now and (2) determining whether the exposures represent a public health hazard. (cdc.gov)
  • Join us and fight poverty through access to justice. (clsphila.org)
  • The Justice for All Campaign is for everyone, attorneys and non-attorneys alike, who shares our vision of fighting poverty through increased access to justice. (clsphila.org)
  • These people also have access to a care coordinator. (idaho.gov)
  • To some extent, working poor represent a new issue, at least in Europe after WWII, when having a job has usually meant the key to access a free and decent life for the workers and their families," Vincenzo Pietrogiovanni says. (lu.se)
  • Because asbestos was commonly used in the construction industry until the 1970s , over a million people are still at risk for mesothelioma. (justia.com)
  • According to SSA's most recent statistical snapshot, 8.3 million people were receiving SSI benefits as of April 2015. (glad.org)
  • Over the last five years, the long game of white supremacy has stymied police reform, thwarted student debt relief, criminalized Black history, ousted Black educators attempting to equalize education and made it harder for Black people to cast ballots. (ronpaulforums.com)
  • We multiply our impact by providing expertise, technical support and education for other professionals who also serve low-income people, and creating proven models that can be implemented by other organizations. (clsphila.org)
  • Article 16 states that, it shall be a fundamental responsibility of the State to attain, through planned economic growth, a constant increase of productive forces and a steady improvement in the material and cultural standard of living of the people, with a view to securing to its citizens(a) The provision of the basic necessities of life, including food, education and medical care. (pdf-archive.com)
  • Each year, we provide more than 40,000 low-income rural Californians with free legal assistance and a variety of community education and outreach programs. (probono.net)
  • Ultimately that transition, even for people who came as skilled workers, it was still quite difficult," she said. (medscape.com)
  • People convicted of crimes are billed for jail stays, lab fees, administrative fees, even the reimbursement of their prosecutors. (thebaffler.com)
  • And 90% of the people in pretrial jail are there because they are unable to afford bail. (globalcitizen.org)
  • One study suggests that those people are "over three times more likely to be sentenced to prison" and "over four times more likely to be sentenced to jail" than those who are not detained pretrial. (globalcitizen.org)
  • Deforestation has been relentlessly linked to Haiti s entrenched poverty and political instability. (pbase.com)
  • CLS is a sought-after partner in groundbreaking collaborative efforts that have brought legal aid to people well beyond our offices. (clsphila.org)
  • Based on a deep understanding of the facts in each case, CLS' lawyers identify systemic problems that keep our clients in poverty and find creative solutions. (clsphila.org)
  • Likewise, other people who face unstable housing environments, like juveniles in foster care and domestic violence survivors, have added challenges to appearing in court and are therefore more likely to receive one of these fees. (aclunc.org)
  • (4) While violence waged against Black people in the United States is nothing new, we have witnessed the appearance of new death-dealing military weapons and the militarizing of entire police forces. (truthout.org)
  • The legal environment of violence in Pakistan was considered de- ficient as it did not address the hidden forms (touching, kissing, etc. (who.int)
  • In cases of gendered violence , the woman´s socio-economic rights are crucial both to escape violence, poverty traps and Covid-19. (lu.se)
  • It's to make sure that the United States is not giving out green cards to people who don't qualify because they're not self-sufficient," Vaughan said. (medscape.com)
  • To study white supremacists is to examine a collection of broken people who see their own hardships and traumas as evidence that they are the world s victims, Lowery writes. (ronpaulforums.com)
  • Had we not won an adjournment of the injunction order this week, hundreds of these people would likely have already been evicted under threat of arrest. (pivotlegal.org)