Poverty
Nearly half a million children under 3 years old are at risk of poverty. Alarming figures, particularly because they do not refers to a developing country, but to the queen of the European economy: Germany. The phenomenon is particularly pronounced among the inhabitants of Berlin and Eastern regions. Just think [...]
3.6 million is the number of French homeless or with housing problems. The figures, updated to 2011, were announced by the Abbé Pierre Foundation, which also emphasizes how to be affected by this phenomenon are not only the weakest members of society, but also people with average incomes.
Saint-Julien-sur-Suran, a French small town to the most unknown, it is up to the headlines recently for being chosen by the Minister of Justice as the site of the first privately run prison. It is true that, on the basis of agreements already in place, many companies are operating within [...]
In Italy, the journalist who combines a picture of a beggar to an article about public safety commits the offense of defamation. This was recently decided by the Supreme Court, stating that the media have the obligation to obscure the faces, not only of homeless, but also of immigrants or [...]
Lots of suicides cases in Northern Ireland are partially ascribed to the Prison Service carelessness. The j’accuse comes from the Criminal Justice Inspection (CJIN). Indeed, a follow-up report on The Treatment of Vulnerable Prisoners by the Northern Ireland Prison Service has been recently published. It report prison officers did not [...]
Income support measures / Minimum income, Life of families
Sales cannot be renounced
Belgium January 10, 2012
30% of Belgians use a loan to pay for goods bought on sale. The percentage has increased significantly since 2010, when only 12% of the population used a consumer credit for post-Christmas spending. The data are released by the CRIOC in its last research.
In Belgium, in 2010 there were 80 thousand job offers sent from Flanders to employment services in Wallonia. The French speaking part counts 232 thousand job applications. It was announced by Synerjob, the organization that brings together the employment services from the different regions.
According to the results of a survey by StepStone, more than 1 Belgian worker out of 10 think to lose much of their professional time on tedious, lengthy and unnecessary meetings.
In Beligium 61% of the homeless are men, mainly middle-aged (on the average 39 years old), overwhelmingly singles (86%) and with a low education level (only 8% have a degree). They are mainly people with poor economic resources: 3 out of 4 of them have a monthly income lower than [...]
In Belgium, according to the national employers organization, at least 150 thousand work posts will be vacant in the next 5 years. In 2010, 1/4 of job ads were withdrew because no candidates applied.
On the death penalty Poland is a lone voice within the EU. If in the rest of the Old Continent the use of the scaffold is now a thing of the past, in Warsaw it continues to be very topical. According to recent surveys conducted by the National Center for [...]
In Poland has blown up the milk bar mania. A phenomenon that confirms how it is possible to transform the communist inheritance’ relics in real cult places. These are little state-owned restaurants, born in 1960 to offer low-coast meals to workers, whose name comes from the fact that meals served [...]
In response to continued complaints from Brussels to human rights violations in prisons in Poland, Warsaw authorities have launched an ad hoc law that will remain paper. The new standard, in fact, in force since November 18, requires biennial inspections in prisons to verify the health status of prisoners. Too [...]
On 27 and 28 October, in Lecce, the second Italian stage of the development education campaign named Sblocchiamoli: cibo, salute e saperi senza brevetti, was held. The campaign is co-funded by the EU Commission under the Knowledge Health and Food for All project and aims both at drawing the attention [...]
Deep troubles for the citizens’ security in Poland. In fact, while the number of seasoned police officers keeps on decreasing, in large part due to early retirements and even for some “financial cutback” reasons, the supply of new recruits is becoming shorter. Little tempted by wage that reach only around [...]
3.6 million is the number of French homeless or with housing problems. The figures, updated to 2011, were announced by the Abbé Pierre Foundation, which also emphasizes how to be affected by this phenomenon are not only the weakest members of society, but also people with average incomes.
Saint-Julien-sur-Suran, a French small town to the most unknown, it is up to the headlines recently for being chosen by the Minister of Justice as the site of the first privately run prison. It is true that, on the basis of agreements already in place, many companies are operating within [...]
Poor people in Paris celebrate 375 years of activity of Crédit Municipal de Paris. Actually the famous pawnshop decided in his anniversary to write off all his credit giving back all the stuff to the respective owners. It is a great news in this widespread crisis for everyone who pawned [...]
Despite this winter is much milder than the previous ones in France there has been a sharp increase in deaths among the homeless. A real anomaly justified by the fact that in recent months 23,867 homeless have not received aid in an accommodation because it is not cold enough. Incredible [...]
Income support measures / Minimum income, Poor families
Banks stingy towards needy people
France December 09, 2011
Normally when we think about poverty and measures to counter it in general we tend to believe that the problem is represented by having the resources to eat every day and living in decent housing. An approach that, in the contemporary world, it seems insufficient. If you do not take [...]
Nearly half a million children under 3 years old are at risk of poverty. Alarming figures, particularly because they do not refers to a developing country, but to the queen of the European economy: Germany. The phenomenon is particularly pronounced among the inhabitants of Berlin and Eastern regions. Just think [...]
In Berlin, there are around four thousand homeless people. How do they survive German ice-cold winter and its temperature of up to twenty degrees below zero? Every year, on November 1, the municipality of Berlin launches a program aiming at helping the homeless in this period of the year. About [...]
Income support measures / Minimum income, Poor families
Who gives a hand receives it
Germany December 07, 2011
Where the state does not arrive it is the third sector that thinks about. Or rather, the recipe for success is perhaps to give a hand to each other. Especially in times of economic crisis. As in the case of the foundation "Mutter und Kinder Bundestiftung", which in Germany helps [...]
Life of families, Social and active inclusion
Who find a friend does not find a job
Germany November 30, 2011
For those looking for a job social networks are not exactly the ideal tool. At least in Germany. Data in hand, in fact, it is far easier to find employment through traditional channels rather than virtual ones. For the simple reason that the classic job-center still make available to the [...]
Moving from a "mini-job" to a regular one. In all probability, is the hope of all those who embark on a process of re-employment financed by the German Government. The 2005 reform, in fact, introduced the so-called "one-euro-jobs", useful for approaching the world of work even if part-time and with [...]
The evils come never alone. The Irish people knows it good, as in addition to the unemployment rate, another data is increasing, this of people with mental and disorder illness. A phenomenon which, surprisingly, affects mainly the men of the green island. According to a National Health Institute's study there [...]
Income support measures / Minimum income
Less dole for less unemployment?
Ireland June 08, 2011 - by Raffaele Padovano
In its last report, OECD asks most of its members to support more intensively employment policies, without leaving out public expenditure. According to OECD economists, indeed, a rapid recovery is possible only if public debt decreases and employment rate rises. In order to obtain these results, governments are asked not [...]
Fight unemployment by cutting government subsidies. This is what OECD suggests to solve the employment crisis that is gripping Ireland. In fact in their latest report on the global economy health, Paris' experts took stock on the green island's economic crisis, showing to the Dublin's government three clear priorities. [...]
9,000 migrants were refused social welfare payments in Ireland last year because they failed to meet the required residency standards.
In Ireland, according to Central Statistics Office (CSO), in February 2011, the amount of people claiming unemployment benefit has fallen by 10,000 on a seasonally adjusted basis since its peak in September 2010.
In Italy, the journalist who combines a picture of a beggar to an article about public safety commits the offense of defamation. This was recently decided by the Supreme Court, stating that the media have the obligation to obscure the faces, not only of homeless, but also of immigrants or [...]
In Italy, an agreement about the guidelines for the prevention of self-injury and suicide in prison has been signed between Government, Regions and Autonomous Provinces addresses. The document foresees the monitoring of the situation and the activation of all necessary initiatives in order to stem this phenomenon.
In 2010, the percentage of Italian households with debts amounted to 27.7% of the total. For an average amount of € 43,792. To be noted that 24.3% of the families had contracted debts with financial intermediaries for reasons unrelated to their professional activity. These are some of the results of [...]
The average income of the top 10% of Italians, in 2008, was 10 times higher than that of the bottom 10%: € 49,300 against € 4,877. A comparison that highlights the deep inequality among workers of this country, reported in the OECD report "Divided We Stand: Why Inequality Keeps Rising", [...]
In Tuscany, in 2011, total employment increased by about 23 thousand units. While the number of jobless has decreased by 5 thousand units. A result, revealed by the last Irpet report, which is better than that of other Italian regions and higher than indicated by many forecasts.
40% of Romanian employers declared to intend to hire new staff in 2011. Yet, at the same time, 41.4% of the employees questioned think that they will be fired for budget reasons. This emerged from a survey carried out by the temporary employment agency myjob.ro.
72% of Romanians questioned in a survey of the job portal BestJobs.ro said they go to work even when they are sick to make sure they don't lag behind with their tasks or that they don't get laid off due to a long absence. A percentage of 20% of the [...]
According to the Romanian National Statistics Institute 1.68 million Romanians work illegally. The impressive figure has been divulgated by the national government which had also commissioned the survey.
Children and youth represented in 2008 and 2009 43% from the total of the poor population in the country. This was the result of a research study conducted in 2009 by UNICEF, the World Bank and the Romanian Ministry for Labour, Family and Social Protection. An analysis of the social [...]
38 thousand files of Romanian people that were receiving social aid from the government were suspended following a campaign of the Ministry of Labour, of Family and of Social Protection. The campaign was meant to verify the conditions that entitle a Romanian citizen to receive social aid or a minimum [...]
Income support measures / Minimum income, Services and assistance
Social rank disability
Spain January 13, 2012
Not only you can come to life with some disability, you can also become disabled because of reasons related to your social rank. As a matter of fact, many social factors increase the possibility of suffering from some kinds of disability. In Spain the possibility to get sick becomes 4 [...]
Income support measures / Minimum income, Life of families
Low cost against the economic crisis
Spain January 10, 2012
In times of cutbacks in public spending and the continued surge in consumer prices the only one that come to the rescue of the 17 million Spanish with a monthly salary of € 1000 who have difficulty making ends meet, is the free market. That, with the complicity of the [...]
The urban decorum is a good and right thing. Such as the measures that discourage the abandonment of waste or that urge to pick up their dog droppings. But what if a package of measures is introduced such a provision prohibiting the homeless to rummage in the trash? This is [...]
Less rich and more poor. As a consequence of the financial crisis that is affecting Spain since the 2008, not only the income has decreased, but its distribution has become more and more unequal. In 2010, the wage differences among different social classes has reached its all-time high. Spain has [...]
The Spanish prison population is likely to serve a double penalty. During the period of imprisonment, in fact, is increasing the percentage of those suffering from mental disorders. At the point that, in the Iberian Peninsula 40% of prisoners suffer from this disease. Provide adequate medical support to these people [...]
The Sentencing Council for England and Wales published its new guideline on drug offences which reduce sentence lengths for drug mules. The Council provides judges and magistrates with guidelines in order to have a more consistent sentencing and ensure there is clear information for victims, offenders and public. This guideline [...]
It happens sometimes that people in poor economic conditions develop a real complex of self-marginalization from society. Instead of addressing their difficulties they retract into their shells like turtles. A phenomenon evidenced by the behavior of many British mothers of poor families who out of fear even avoid coming face [...]
According to a report published by the renowned Institute for Fiscal Studies (Ifs), 600 thousand English children will live in extreme poverty by 2013. The datum is worrisome since it concerns over 3 million children.
Looking at the Ifs data, it is clear that Great Britain will not be able to [...]
The British Government has found a new idea to support the gradual reintegration of prisoners into the labor market and at the same time, compensate the victims. As part of programs that allow prisoners to carry out an activity within the walls of prisons, from September 2011 it is expected [...]
Visiting London having an homeless person as a guide. They are the "Unseen Tours” that reveal the capital with an unusual but not least prepared Virgil. According to the enthusiastic foreigners who have experienced the initiative, it seems, in fact, that the unusual companion is often more competent than those [...]
The debate on the role played by social protection systems in countries’ economic development has always been very controversial and the economic crisis we are now experiencing make it a topical issue. Since huge public expenditure cuts are expected, it is better to distinguish between a “good” expenditure and a [...]
Even today millions of people worldwide suffer from hunger. And the situation will probably worsen due to the high and volatile food prices, which may increase over the next decade. This is what emerges from the last report, jointly prepared by FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations), [...]
Social and active inclusion
Nobody gains from disequality
World September 12, 2011 - by Giovanni Paci
“Stop Coddling the Super-Rich”, that is the title of an article published last month in the New York Times.[1] The author is not an anti-globalisation activist back from any G-8 summit. W. E. Buffet is one of the richest men in the world. Buffet criticises the American tax system where [...]
In 2010 the capital executions in the world were 5,837. With an increase if compared to 2009 when they were 5,741. A raise which is almost entirely due to the escalation of this practice in Iran (from 402 to 546), which occupies the second place, after China and before North [...]
Social and active inclusion
The World Order in 2050: Global Convergence toward the Middle Class Society
World July 08, 2011 - by Steven Hill
Since World War II, it is plain to see that a high degree of convergence has occurred all over the world around the institutions and practices of political democracy and economy. Country after country has followed the American model based on the rise of the middle class.
The attractive idea that [...]
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