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Employers that don’t support employees with mental illness risk missing out on the talents and skills that such employees can provide.
No recourse to public funds restrictions mean that families cannot access any benefits regardless of need.
As vacations approach, anxiety often mounts: What if you’re seen as a slacker – or, worse, replaceable?
The government has been forced into another u-turn to see off a rebellion. But it really shouldn’t have come to this.
Excessive delays and hurdles are rife in Australia’s A$4 trillion superannuation industry’s death benefits system. There should be consequences for failure.
Benefits and pensions are increasing at much lower rates, hitting low-income households hardest.
Ministers say it’s their ‘moral duty’ to encourage sick and disabled people to work. But is this ‘morality’ driven by genuine compassion or cost-cutting?
Many of the measures already implemented to reduce government spending have actually pushed people further away from the labour market.
Recent experiments make the case for a paradigm shift in the provision of social assistance.
At the height of the pandemic, the government temporarily paused welfare conditionality, but claimants continued to seek work at just the same level as when conditionality was in place.
The next government should restore the value of benefits to cover the costs of living.
Many economists have found that generous unemployment benefits can hamper new business creation – but there are still positive ways for governments to intervene.
Targeting benefits at the most vulnerable sounds like good sense – but a wider support system could be more effective at tackling poverty.
Welfare reforms targeted at the sick and disabled won’t boost government coffers. In fact, spending on those who need support and investing in less conditional systems has a real financial return.
Less hype and more health care, please.
Many people answer questions about the economy and benefits incorrectly.
The federal government needs to ensure the Canada Disability Benefit is designed to help those most in need.
The US military’s switch to an all-volunteer force in 1973 led to a series of magazine ads that sought to portray military service as a way for women and people of color to move up in society.
From soup and semolina to Jamie’s school dinners: the changing face of school meals in the UK.
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