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Inequality, Poverty, and Social Protection in Bulgaria

Hallaert, Jean-Jacques - 2020

Absolute poverty has dropped markedly in Bulgaria but income inequality has increased substantially in the aftermath of … the GFC. This increase is due to a rise in market income inequality that was compounded by a reduction in fiscal … redistributive efficiency. The COVID-19 crisis is likely to deepen income inequality, increasing the room for redistributive policies …

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Survival Skills : Welfare to Work in Los Angeles

Drayse, Mark - 2016

Recent welfare reform legislation mandates that aid recipients become employed and economically self-sufficient. The allowable interval of continuous assistance is limited to 24 months for current recipients and 18 months for new recipients, with a lifetime limit of five years on welfare. At...

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Running Out of Time : Voices of Parents Struggling to Move from Welfare to Work

Flaming, Daniel - 2016

The family needs survey was conducted over a three-week period from April 25 through May 15, 2002, at 230 different events in 124 different locations throughout Los Angeles County. Nearly 60 percent of the surveys were completed in welfare offices, the rest in adult education classes and...

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Prisoners of Hope : Welfare to Work in Los Angeles

Burns, Patrick - 2016

This report examines why more welfare parents did not become economically self-sufficient after participating in the LA County Welfare to Work Program, GAIN (Greater Avenue for Independence). It provided information about what happened to these parents when they entered the labor market after...

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On the Edge : A Progress Report on Welfare to Work in Los Angeles

Flaming, Daniel - 2016

The loss of a welfare safety net for most adults for most of their lives makes the quality of jobs available to the working poor and their success in finding and keeping jobs increasingly important. The economic and civic life of the Los Angeles region will be shaped by connections that are...

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Ebbing Tides in the Golden State : Impacts of the 2008 Recession on California and Los Angeles County

Flaming, Daniel - 2016

The most concrete characteristic of a recession is that demand disappears for some of the commodities produced by workers and unwanted unemployment is imposed on a large segment of the labor force. With growing job losses in the current recession it is important to know, whose boat falls when...

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By the Sweat of Their Brow : Welfare to Work in Los Angeles

Force, Peter - 2016

The nation's best known welfare program, Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) was created to give widows and destitute mothers the means to stay at home and care for children. However, the entry of large numbers of American mothers into the paid workforce has created increasing tension...

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Breaking the Fall : Successful Homeless Interventions in the COVID Pandemic

Flaming, Daniel; Pickens, Seth; Burns, Patrick - 2023

Government income and housing interventions during the COVID pandemic had demonstrable benefits in reducing the growth of homelessness. Comparisons of projected versus actual growth in Los Angeles County from 2020 to 2022 validate the benefit of these interventions.This report offers three types...

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A Pause in the Growth of Inequality in China?

Herd, Richard - 2010

In recent years, policymaking in China has put increasing emphasis on stemming the growth in inequality, which had been … of other social benefits. A set of new indicators of nationwide inequality, based on household survey data, suggests that … overall inequality has ceased to increase in recent years, and may even have inched down. Alternative measures of income …

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The impact of income adjustments in the Casen Survey on the measurement of inequality in Chile

Bravo, David; Torres, José A. Valderrama - In: Estudios de Economia 38, 1 Year 2011, pp. 43-65

paper analyzes the sensitivity of inequality and poverty indicators to the adjustments made by ECLAC so as to enable a … consistency between what is reported by the CASEN survey and the National Accounts figures in Chile. The results reveal that this … leads to important changes in the top-end of the distribution and to an overestimation in the main inequality indicators in …

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