Paris District Implements Ban on Food Distributions, Affecting Migrants and Homeless Communities

Paris District Implements Ban on Food Distributions, Affecting Migrants and Homeless Communities

Food distributions have been prohibited since Tuesday, October 10 in a working-class district of Paris where migrants and homeless people concentrate. A decision “ unacceptable » which will hit the most deprived, deplore the associations, who see in this decision the imprint of the experiments carried out in Calais. Published on: 11/10/2023 – 10:38 3 … Read more

Analyzing Net Amount vs Gross Assets and Debts: A More Accurate Approach to Assessing Wealth Differences

Analyzing Net Amount vs Gross Assets and Debts: A More Accurate Approach to Assessing Wealth Differences

Net amount should be broken down in analyses Instead, the experts suggest splitting the net amount into gross assets and debts and looking at their combined impact. In addition, the wealth effects should be analyzed using a specific statistical approach (“Generalized Additive Models”). “In a simulation study, we were able to show that this approach … Read more

State Councilor Teschl-Hofmeister and Mayor Stadler Open Free Money Education and Support Center in St. Pölten

State Councilor Teschl-Hofmeister and Mayor Stadler Open Free Money Education and Support Center in St. Pölten

Free contact points on the subject of opening money in St. Pölten city center with State Councilor Teschl-Hofmeister and Mayor Matthias Stadler St. Pölten (OTS) – A free and self-determined life with fewer financial worries can be possible even in times of high inflation and declining financial resources. The Three Coins association wants to pave … Read more

ANPSP Members Organize Protest March Through The Hague to Highlight Rising Costs for Citizens

ANPSP Members Organize Protest March Through The Hague to Highlight Rising Costs for Citizens

ANPSP members prior to their protest march through The Hague NOS Nieuws•vandaag, 16:46 The SP held the Budget Day Protest in The Hague. With the action, the party wants to draw attention to the rising costs for citizens. According to the ANP news agency, there were about 1,500 demonstrators on the scene. SP leader Lilian … Read more

India’s Controversial Move to Hide Slums During G20 Summit Raises Protests

India’s Controversial Move to Hide Slums During G20 Summit Raises Protests

KOMPAS.com – India “hid” the country’s slum areas during the G20 Summit last week. The country’s government put up cloth around New Delhi’s slum areas when a number of state leaders arrived on September 9-10 2023 to attend the G20 Summit. A video upload showing the presence of green cloth to cover slum areas went … Read more

Rising Poverty in the Netherlands: 1 Million People at Risk Without Government Measures

Rising Poverty in the Netherlands: 1 Million People at Risk Without Government Measures

NOS Nearly 1 million people in the Netherlands are at risk of living in poverty next year if the government does not take measures. The Central Planning Bureau (CPB) issued this warning yesterday. The director of the CPB, Pieter Hasekamp, ​​advises the outgoing cabinet to look at options to prevent this, for example by increasing … Read more

Rising Poverty Rates in the Netherlands: Concerns Regarding the Expiration of Support Measures

Rising Poverty Rates in the Netherlands: Concerns Regarding the Expiration of Support Measures

NOS Nieuws•vandaag, 20:51 Billie Barrier editor Economics Billie Barrier editor Economics After more and more people came to the food bank in Utrecht Overvecht in 2022, the number of customers will drop by ten percent this year. “And that is the picture throughout Utrecht,” says Nico Jongerius of the Food Bank Overvecht. The government’s support … Read more

ANP Ministers Schouten and Van Gennip Call for Action to Prevent Poverty Increase in the Netherlands

ANP Ministers Schouten and Van Gennip Call for Action to Prevent Poverty Increase in the Netherlands

ANP Ministers Schouten and Van Gennip NOS News•today, 12:53•Edited today, 13:54 Ministers Van Gennip of Social Affairs and Schouten for Poverty Policy believe that the outgoing cabinet should get to work to prevent poverty in the Netherlands from increasing next year. The Central Planning Bureau said this morning that without new policy, the number of … Read more

Significant Decrease in Poverty in Mexico: 8.9 Million Fewer People Living in Poverty Between 2020 and 2022

Significant Decrease in Poverty in Mexico: 8.9 Million Fewer People Living in Poverty Between 2020 and 2022

The number of people living in poverty in Mexico went from 55.7 to 46.8 million people between 2020 and 2022, which meant a decrease of 8.9 million, reported the National Council for the Evaluation of Social Development Policy (Coneval). In this way, the percentage of the population in a situation of poverty went from 43.9% … Read more