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September 2012: Labour Market Matters Addressing welfare and social assistance dependency The Canadian Labour Market … month’s issue examines different approaches to addressing welfare and social assistance dependency. It is often a struggle … achieving low government costs in the structuring of income assistance (welfare) policies. In recent years governments in Canada …
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This chapter discusses the nature of external capabilities and how they bear upon social policy. Alternative definitions of external capabilities are compared and a simplified version suggested. It is argued that the issues surrounding external capabilities can be resolved only if the capability...
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process in a welfare state, and of the rights of these communities to development equally on par with other communities. …
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This paper provides a robust normative evaluation of the spectacular growth episode that India has experienced in the last 15 years. Specifically, the paper compares the evolution, between 1998, 1996 and 2001 of the distribution of several important individual attributes on the basis of...
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The present study is to examine the state of Schedule Caste and Scheduled Tribes (SC/STs) in terms of their socio-economic conditions. About one third of the Indian population belong to SC and ST social category and they have been considered as the most deprivation sections of the society. How...
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process in a welfare state, and of the rights of these communities to development equally on par with other communities. …
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the welfare and development of these (SC/ST) communities has not been fulfilled in implementation. Nevertheless the recent … violation of norms like equity, equality and social justice that ought to be followed in the development process in a welfare …
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events in 124 different locations throughout Los Angeles County. Nearly 60 percent of the surveys were completed in welfare … completed in welfare offices, 45 percent were from parents who were not receiving CalWORKs. Survey responses were drawn from the …
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Counties bear large hidden costs for individuals with disabilities who are indigent or homeless. This includes costs for health care, jails and probation in addition to readily identifiable county costs for public assistance. A large share of this cost is health related – costs that the...
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The nation's best known welfare program, Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) was created to give widows and … lifetime five-year limit, making it critically important for welfare recipients to find stable, full-time employment that pays … and program administrators create successful welfare-to-work programs in Los Angeles County, which has the nation …
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