#benefits — Public Fediverse posts

The NGO Trap: How a $1 Trillion Industry Learned to Love African Poverty by Lawson Akhigbe

https://lawakhigbe.com/2026/09/09/the-ngo-trap-how-a-1-trillion-industry-learned-to-love-african-poverty-by-lawson-akhigbe/

Majority of Tory and Reform voters do not back cuts to disability benefits, survey finds https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/08/majority-tory-reform-voters-do-not-back-cuts-disability-benefits-survey #Disability #Benefits #EconomicPolicy #Politics #Society #UkNews

Majority of Tory and Reform voters do not back cuts to disability benefits, survey finds
By Patrick Butler Social policy editor

Nearly half of respondents say spending on personal independence payments should be increased

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/08/majority-tory-reform-voters-do-not-back-cuts-disability-benefits-survey

#Disability #Benefits #Economicpolicy #Politics #Society #UKnews #TheGuardian #PatrickButlerSocialpolicyeditor

https://www.europesays.com/uk/1191156/ Social Security: Payments of up to $5,181 Coming This Week #Benefits #Business #Finance #money #PersonalFinance #retirement #SocialSecurity #UK #UnitedKingdom

https://www.europesays.com/ie/676601/ Social Security: Payments of up to $5,181 Coming This Week #Benefits #Business #Éire #IE #Ireland #Money #PersonalFinance #PersonalFinance #Retirement #SocialSecurity

I had an amazing experience as a disabled person at school in the 70s. Since then, discrimination has got far worse | Mik Scarlet
By Mik Scarlet

Toxic narratives around ‘benefit scrounging’, fed by successive governments, have become embedded in the national psyche

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/sep/07/disabled-person-school-discrimination-benefits

#Disability #Welfare #Benefits #UKnews #Politics #Workcareers #TheGuardian #MikScarlet

I had an amazing experience as a disabled person at school in the 70s. Since then, discrimination has got far worse | Mik Scarlet
By Mik Scarlet

Toxic narratives around ‘benefit scrounging’, fed by successive governments, have become embedded in the national psyche

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/sep/07/disabled-person-school-discrimination-benefits

#Disability #Welfare #Benefits #UKnews #Politics #Workcareers #TheGuardian #MikScarlet

I had an amazing experience as a disabled person at school in the 70s. Since then, discrimination has got far worse | Mik Scarlet
By Mik Scarlet

Toxic narratives around ‘benefit scrounging’, fed by successive governments, have become embedded in the national psyche

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/sep/07/disabled-person-school-discrimination-benefits

#Disability #Welfare #Benefits #UKnews #Politics #Workcareers #TheGuardian #MikScarlet

I had an amazing experience as a disabled person at school in the 70s. Since then, discrimination has got far worse | Mik Scarlet
By Mik Scarlet

Toxic narratives around ‘benefit scrounging’, fed by successive governments, have become embedded in the national psyche

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/sep/07/disabled-person-school-discrimination-benefits

#Disability #Welfare #Benefits #UKnews #Politics #Workcareers #TheGuardian #MikScarlet

I had an amazing experience as a disabled person at school in the 70s. Since then, discrimination has got far worse | Mik Scarlet https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/sep/07/disabled-person-school-discrimination-benefits #Disability #Welfare #Benefits #UkNews #Politics #WorkCareers

I had an amazing experience as a disabled person at school in the 70s. Since then, discrimination has got far worse | Mik Scarlet https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/sep/07/disabled-person-school-discrimination-benefits #Disability #Welfare #Benefits #UkNews #Politics #WorkCareers

I had an amazing experience as a disabled person at school in the 70s. Since then, discrimination has got far worse | Mik Scarlet https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/sep/07/disabled-person-school-discrimination-benefits #Disability #Welfare #Benefits #UkNews #Politics #WorkCareers

I had an amazing experience as a disabled person at school in the 70s. Since then, discrimination has got far worse | Mik Scarlet https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/sep/07/disabled-person-school-discrimination-benefits #Disability #Welfare #Benefits #UkNews #Politics #WorkCareers

Happy Labor Day!! 🇺🇸💪
Why do you appreciate Unions? We’ll start:

😎 Weekends off
🧳 Paid vacations
⏸️ Work breaks
🤧 Sick leave
🎆 Paid holidays
👧🏽 No child labor
👷🏽‍♂️Safer working conditions
🩻 Health care
🎣 Retirement

Copying @[email protected] post 😉

#laborday #unions #unionstrong #benefits #workers

Happy Labor Day!! 🇺🇸💪
Why do you appreciate Unions? We’ll start:

😎 Weekends off
🧳 Paid vacations
⏸️ Work breaks
🤧 Sick leave
🎆 Paid holidays
👧🏽 No child labor
👷🏽‍♂️Safer working conditions
🩻 Health care
🎣 Retirement

Copying @[email protected] post 😉

#laborday #unions #unionstrong #benefits #workers

Happy Labor Day!! 🇺🇸💪
Why do you appreciate Unions? We’ll start:

😎 Weekends off
🧳 Paid vacations
⏸️ Work breaks
🤧 Sick leave
🎆 Paid holidays
👧🏽 No child labor
👷🏽‍♂️Safer working conditions
🩻 Health care
🎣 Retirement

Copying @[email protected] post 😉

#laborday #unions #unionstrong #benefits #workers

Happy Labor Day!! 🇺🇸💪
Why do you appreciate Unions? We’ll start:

😎 Weekends off
🧳 Paid vacations
⏸️ Work breaks
🤧 Sick leave
🎆 Paid holidays
👧🏽 No child labor
👷🏽‍♂️Safer working conditions
🩻 Health care
🎣 Retirement

Copying @[email protected] post 😉

#laborday #unions #unionstrong #benefits #workers

Four Weeks of a Vegan Diet Alter Signs of Inflammation and Aging

https://www.uniklinik-freiburg.de/en/press/press-releases/detailed-view/6938-vier-wochen-vegane-ernaehrung-veraendern-entzuendungs-und-alterungssignale.html

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49592094

#HackerNews #vegan #diet #inflammation #aging #health #benefits #nutrition

Child trust fund firms face review over efforts to find who owns £1.5bn worth of pots https://www.theguardian.com/money/2026/sep/01/child-trust-fund-firms-face-review-over-efforts-to-find-who-owns-15bn-worth-of-pots #ChildTrustFunds #Savings #StateBenefits #Benefits #Society #Money #BanksAndBuildingSocieties #UkNews #FinancialConductAuthority #FinancialSector #Business #Regulators #FamilyFinances #ConsumerAffairs #ConsumerRights

Child trust fund firms face review over efforts to find who owns £1.5bn worth of pots
By Hilary Osborne

Exclusive: FCA pressures firms to do more to sort 760,000 accounts as watchdog urges families to use free tracking service

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2026/sep/01/child-trust-fund-firms-face-review-over-efforts-to-find-who-owns-15bn-worth-of-pots

#Childtrustfunds #Savings #Statebenefits #Benefits #Society #Money #Banksandbuildingsocieties #UKnews #FinancialConductAuthority #Financialsector #Business #Regulators #Familyfinances #Consumeraffairs #Consumerrights #TheGuardian #HilaryOsborne

@2legged It is absolutely no surprise to me at all that #Labour, under both Starmer & #Burnham, has no plans for #redistribution of #income & #wealth, #reduction in income & wealth #inequality or increased #taxation of the #rich, whereas they DO have plans, some of which they've already implemented, for #cuts in #social #spending & #socialsecurity #benefits, especially for the #disabled.

Sunak’s plan to cut sickness benefits bill prompts charity fury | The Independent

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/rishi-sunak-sickness-benefits-sick-note-b2531633.html

#Disabilities
#Disabled
#ChronicallyIll
#DisabilityBenefits
#SicknessBenefits
#Benefits
#Welfare
#Sunak
#WarOnDisabled
#WarOnTheChronicallyIll
#WarOnTheSick
#WarOnTheMentallyIll
#ForcedTreatment
#NHS
#WaitingLists
#FitNotes
#Scope
#FitNotesIssuedByDWP
#PIP
#Mind
#JosephRowntreeFoundation
#MSSociety
#Davey
#Tories
#Scapegoating

DWP under fire over new work capability assessment rule which is 'inhumane' - Birmingham Live
https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/cost-of-living/dwp-under-fire-over-new-28764010?gaa_at=la&gaa_n=AZsHK_mz4bmXLCmk70NyalXIn8cZc_9_7whMniJIENwuxitB08RwK9zMQbolH8LehB8%3D&utm_source=newsshowcase&utm_medium=discover&utm_campaign=CCwqGQgwKhAIACoHCAow2c77CjC-yfQCMMGz0QIwhp39Ag&utm_content=bullets&gaa_ts=65ea4caf&gaa_sig=R_Udhk4FApO0MbfdMOTvZ7wXi4IfBITGLkjgjSToUUtsI0-QIVWAOzumZcF40mQqsGii5QaZ-n7XWqB_WknJMQ%3D%3D

#DWP
#WCA
#WorkCapabilityAssesment
#Benefits
#Deaths
#DisabledPeopleAgainstCuts
#DPAC
#TheWarOnDisabledPeople
#BigIssue
#UniversalCredit
#UC
#Reforms
#Disabled
#Reform
#PowerWheelchairs
#Ventilators
#Food
#Wheelchair
#ChanceToWorkGuarantee

USGS Study Estimating A Monetary Value For Floodplain Ecosystem Services In The Chesapeake Bay And Delaware River Watersheds
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https://www.usgs.gov/centers/chesapeake-bay-activities/science/floodplains-provide-millions-dollars-benefits-every-year <-- shared technical article
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2023.118747 <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #model #modeling #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #flood #flooding #floodinnundation #innundation #extremeweather #climatechange #watersheds #floodengineering #floodplains #nutrients #sediments #sedimentation #fluvial #soils #erosion #floodwaters #agriculture #farming #economics #accounting #mitigation #tradeoffs #management #landforms #geomorphology #ecosystems #publicsafety #communityhealth #appliedscience #water #hydrology #benefits #benefitstransfer #regulation #quantification #value #loss #lossanddamage #lossadjusting #Hazus #ChesapeakeBay #DelawareRiver
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