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Do they know its christmas?,women and children homeless at christmas
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Monday December 08, 2003 00:16 by Oona deathlist
Spare a thought for families homeless at christmas. Children are 75% more likely to grow up in absolute poverty if they live with a lone mother. This is because welfare benefits such as income support are set so low. |
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More and more people around the world are coming to the conclusion that the most direct way to end poverty is with a guaranteed livable income. It would especially benefit women who make up 70% of the world's poor and do most of the world's unpaid work.
Some groups call it Basic Income, some Citizen's Dividend, others call it guaranteed annual income.
We call it "Livable" to emphasize that it would have to be at a level high enough for health and well-being.
It would be cheaper than the current system as the costs of poverty are very high in health and social problems.
Martin Luther King came to this conclusion in 1968
http://www.progress.org/dividend/cdking.html
"I am now convinced that the simplest approach will prove to be the most effective -- the solution to poverty is to abolish it directly by a now widely discussed measure: the guaranteed income."
and Ireland has a right to the safe development of her future generations.
but that right is more properly expressed as a "duty".
oughtn't to be dream. Yet more Irish people entered impossible to clear debts mostly related to housing in 2003 than at any stage since 1999.