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‘Digital welfare state’: Big Tech allowed to target and surveil the poor, UN warns
Nations around the world are “stumbling zombie-like into a digital welfare dystopia” in which artificial intelligence and other technologies are used to target, surveil and punish the poorest people, the United Nation’s monitor on poverty has warned.
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Digital dystopia: how algorithms punish the poor
All around the world, from small-town Illinois in the US to Rochdale in England, from Perth, Australia, to Dumka in northern India, a revolution is under way in how governments treat the poor. You can’t see it happening, and may have heard nothing about it. It’s being planned by engineers and coders behind closed doors, in secure government locations far from public view.
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US income inequality jumps to highest level ever recorded
Income inequality last year reached its highest level in more than half a century, as a record-long economic expansion continued to disproportionately benefit some of the wealthiest Americans. A key measure of wealth distribution jumped to 0.485 in 2018, the Census Bureau said Thursday, its highest reading since the so-called Gini index was started in 1967. The gauge, which uses a scale of 0 to 1, stood at 0.482 a year earlier.
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Low-income, black neighborhoods still hit hard by air pollution
Disease-causing air pollution remains high in pockets of America – particularly those where many low-income and African-American people live, a disparity highlighted in research presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association in New York. The nation’s air on the whole has become cleaner in the past 70 years, but those...
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India lifted 271 million people out of poverty in 10 years: UN
India lifted 271 million people out of poverty between 2006 and 2016, recording the fastest reductions in the multidimensional poverty index values during the period with strong improvements in areas
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Tired Of Being Poor? 13 Steps To Change Your Life! - Arrest Your Debt
Find out what it takes to pull yourself out of poverty by following these tips from people who have been able to change their financial life!
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Child poverty is as bad now as it was 30 years ago–here’s how we can make progress again
A simple measure of societal progress is: “Will the next generation be better off than the current one.” Right now, we seem to be going backwards on that metric. A child born today has around the same chance of growing up in poverty as one born in 1990.
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The [U.S.] One Percent Have Gotten $21 Trillion Richer Since 1989
The bottom 50% have gotten poorer. By Eric Levitz.
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Young People Are Poorer Than Ever and Government Programs Are Failing Them
A new study finds that the social safety net leaves out the youngest workers.
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New Data Paint An Unpleasant Picture of Poverty In The US
The annual cost of child poverty comes to around $1 trillion. Meanwhile, every dollar spent reducing child poverty is estimated to yield $7 in the future.
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Poverty leaves a mark on our genes
A new Northwestern University study challenges prevailing understandings of genes as immutable features of biology that are fixed at conception. Previous research has shown that socioeconomic status (SES) is a powerful determinant of human health and disease, and social inequality is a ubiquitous stressor for human populations globally.
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Taken for a Ride: How Ambulance Debt Afflicts the Extreme Poor
I was in total shock, strapped to a gurney in the back of an ambulance. I had been repeatedly abducted, beaten, and sexually assaulted by a transient man over a period of a year. Completely defenseless and traumatized, I was later groped by a series of predatory homeless men. Defeated, my extreme circumstanceselicited an extreme response: I began lying naked on a patch of grass near a busy street in Salt Lake City.
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China’s systematic approach to poverty reduction paid off
Addressing delegates from Gansu Province at the second session of the 13th National People’s Congress (NPC) in Beijing on March 14 ,China’s President, Xi Jinping, pointed out that time was running out for fulfilling the lofty pledge to rid China of “extreme poverty” by 2020. “There should be no retreat until a complete victory is achieved,” Xi exhorted.
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The Fear of Losing It All
What happens to your brain when you worry about money. By Charlotte Cowles.
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Private school tax credits help save Catholic schools, not poor children
The title of Archbishop Joseph Kurtz’s op-ed “Catholic teaching supports the aims of HB 205” should more accurately have stated, “HB 205 supports the aims of Catholic teaching.” Since 1995, the number of Catholic schools in our country has been declining rapidly, mostly due to lower attendance numbers and stretched church budgets. When Mr. Kurtz says, “this legislation will help those in need,” he is correct only if he is referring to the need Catholic schools have to basically survive. It has little to do with helping low-income students and more to do with the church counting on the taxpayers of this country to save religious schools.
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Millions in Britain at risk of poor-quality later life, report says
A landmark report on the state of ageing in Britain has warned that a significant proportion of people are at risk of spending later life in poverty, ill-health and hardship. Britain is undergoing a radical demographic shift, with the number of people aged 65 and over set to grow by more than 40% in two decades, reaching more than 17 million by 2036. The number of households where the oldest person is 85 or over is increasing faster than any other age group.
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No one needs access to driverless cars more than America's poor
Silicon Valley is pouring billions into robot cars. Soon – although the time scale keeps shifting – tech manufacturers say driverless cars will replace their traditional counterparts, car parks will become parks again and road fatalities will plummet. People have argued over ethical concerns surrounding the technology, the ensuing job losses and the public’s antipathy to this robot revolution. But the biggest obstacle may well be money.
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New Orleans reduced homelessness by 90% (and saved a fortune) by giving homeless people homes
Homelessness in New Orleans spiked after Hurricane Katrina, reaching 11,600 by 2007; today that number has been reduced by 90%, thanks to a "housing first" (previously) approach that starts by giving homeless people stable, permanent housing, and then addressing confounding factors like mental illness and substance addiction (on the grounds that these conditions are easier to treat when people have stable housing).
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Is Living Paycheck to Paycheck the New Normal for Middle-Class America? - Non Profit News
“Millions of middle-class Americans are just one missed paycheck away from poverty,” reports Aimee Picchi for CBS News. Picchi adds that four in ten are considered “liquid-asset poor,” which is defined as lacking “enough savings to make ends meet at the poverty level for three months.” For a family of four to live at a poverty-line income for three months would cost $6,275. Again, four in ten households have cash savings that fall below this amount.
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40% of Americans only one missed paycheck away from poverty
Millions of middle-class Americans are just one missed paycheck away from poverty, with 4 of 10 considered "liquid-asset poor," or without enough money socked away to cope with even a sudden disruption in income. The findings, from economic advocacy group Prosperity Now, highlight the financial insecurity facing many U.S. households, as was seen during the recent partial government shutdown.
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