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Poverty is a state or condition in which an individual lacks the financial resources and essentials for a basic standard of living. Poverty can have diverse environmental, legal, social, economic, and political causes and effects. [1]
Following peace in 1814, the Tory government of Lord Liverpool [54] passed the Corn Laws [55] to keep the price of grain artificially high. 1815 saw great social unrest [56] as the end of the French Wars [57] saw industrial and agricultural depression and high unemployment. Social attitudes to poverty began to change after 1815 and overhauls of ...
The New Jersey Civil Service Commission is an independent body within the New Jersey state government under the auspices of the department. Initially constituted in the late-1940s, pursuant to P.L. 1948, c.446, as the Department of Labor and Industry, the department is one of 16 executive branch departments in New Jersey state government.
The Unemployment Insurance Act 1920 created the dole system of payments for unemployed workers in the United Kingdom. [8] The dole system provided 39 weeks of unemployment benefits to over 11,000,000 workers—practically the entire civilian working population except domestic service, farmworkers, railway men, and civil servants.
The Royal Automobile Association of South Australia (RAA) is an Australian motor club that provides a range of member services. [1] These services include 24-hour emergency breakdown assistance, vehicle inspection services, insurance services, and a range of additional member benefits.
In labour economics, Shapiro–Stiglitz theory of efficiency wages (or Shapiro–Stiglitz efficiency wage model) [1] is an economic theory of wages and unemployment in labour market equilibrium. It provides a technical description of why wages are unlikely to fall and how involuntary unemployment appears.
The Sarah Baartman District Municipality (Xhosa: uMasipala weSithili sase Sarah Baartman; Afrikaans: Sarah Baartman-distriksmunisipaliteit), formerly the Cacadu District Municipality, is situated in the western part of the Eastern Cape province of South Africa, covering an area of 58,242 square kilometres.
General Assistance (also known as General Relief) is a term used in the United States to denote welfare programs that benefit adults without dependents (single persons, or less commonly, childless married couples) as opposed to families with children, who receive assistance from the federal program formerly known as Aid to Families with Dependent Children, and, since 1996, officially known as ...