These issues and inadequacies should be addressed urgently if the social safety net is to deliver its promised outcomes. The interim government is in a unique position to reform the whole structure ...

Low-income retirees say that returning to work would mean a higher paycheck, but lower food, health, and housing benefits.

Social safety net programmes, such as Open Market Sales (OMS) and Vulnerable Group Feeding (VGF), provided less help to the ...

Despite lacking a Bangladesh Bank licence, Nagad became the fastest-growing MFS provider, driven by the mandate that primary and secondary students open Nagad accounts to receive government stipends ...

Donald Trump, following the Project 2025 script, had his budget office put a halt to trillions of dollars in government ...

Williams, PhD, LMSW, spoke to ESSENCE about the need for community care as Black women navigate the mental toll of the ...

California’s two largest safety net programs – CalFresh and Medi-Cal – can reduce the costs of attending the state’s public colleges and universities by thousands of dollars, but more could be done to ...

A new report in Axios, citing U.S. Census data, said Wednesday that the U.S. child poverty rate hit an all-time low of 5.2 percent in 2021, compared to a high ...

The government's safety net programmes must transform itself from a charity-based model to an empowerment-focused approach, said Sharmeen Murshid, adviser to the Ministry of Social Welfare and the ...