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  1. A quotation from Molly Ivins

    How the American right managed to convince itself that the programs to alleviate poverty are responsible for the consequences of poverty will someday be studied as a notorious mass illusion. In the meantime, real children — kids who get earaches and like Big Bird and are crabby when they aren’t fed and whose eyes widen in wonder when they meet Santa Claus — will pay the price for this pernicious folly.

    Molly Ivins (1944-2007) American writer, political columnist [Mary Tyler Ivins]
    Essay (1995-12-24), “Look to the Children of the Poor in This Season of Budget-Slashing,” Fort Worth Star-Telegram

    More about this quote: wist.info/ivins-molly/83595/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #mollyivins #conservatives #government #poor #poverty #publicpolicy #rightwing #safetynet #socialprogram #socialwelfare #welfare

  2. A quotation from Molly Ivins

    How the American right managed to convince itself that the programs to alleviate poverty are responsible for the consequences of poverty will someday be studied as a notorious mass illusion. In the meantime, real children — kids who get earaches and like Big Bird and are crabby when they aren’t fed and whose eyes widen in wonder when they meet Santa Claus — will pay the price for this pernicious folly.

    Molly Ivins (1944-2007) American writer, political columnist [Mary Tyler Ivins]
    Essay (1995-12-24), “Look to the Children of the Poor in This Season of Budget-Slashing,” Fort Worth Star-Telegram

    More about this quote: wist.info/ivins-molly/83595/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #mollyivins #conservatives #government #poor #poverty #publicpolicy #rightwing #safetynet #socialprogram #socialwelfare #welfare

  3. A quotation from Molly Ivins

    How the American right managed to convince itself that the programs to alleviate poverty are responsible for the consequences of poverty will someday be studied as a notorious mass illusion. In the meantime, real children — kids who get earaches and like Big Bird and are crabby when they aren’t fed and whose eyes widen in wonder when they meet Santa Claus — will pay the price for this pernicious folly.

    Molly Ivins (1944-2007) American writer, political columnist [Mary Tyler Ivins]
    Essay (1995-12-24), “Look to the Children of the Poor in This Season of Budget-Slashing,” Fort Worth Star-Telegram

    More about this quote: wist.info/ivins-molly/83595/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #mollyivins #conservatives #government #poor #poverty #publicpolicy #rightwing #safetynet #socialprogram #socialwelfare #welfare

  4. A quotation from Molly Ivins

    How the American right managed to convince itself that the programs to alleviate poverty are responsible for the consequences of poverty will someday be studied as a notorious mass illusion. In the meantime, real children — kids who get earaches and like Big Bird and are crabby when they aren’t fed and whose eyes widen in wonder when they meet Santa Claus — will pay the price for this pernicious folly.

    Molly Ivins (1944-2007) American writer, political columnist [Mary Tyler Ivins]
    Essay (1995-12-24), “Look to the Children of the Poor in This Season of Budget-Slashing,” Fort Worth Star-Telegram

    More about this quote: wist.info/ivins-molly/83595/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #mollyivins #conservatives #government #poor #poverty #publicpolicy #rightwing #safetynet #socialprogram #socialwelfare #welfare

  5. A quotation from Molly Ivins

    How the American right managed to convince itself that the programs to alleviate poverty are responsible for the consequences of poverty will someday be studied as a notorious mass illusion. In the meantime, real children — kids who get earaches and like Big Bird and are crabby when they aren’t fed and whose eyes widen in wonder when they meet Santa Claus — will pay the price for this pernicious folly.

    Molly Ivins (1944-2007) American writer, political columnist [Mary Tyler Ivins]
    Essay (1995-12-24), “Look to the Children of the Poor in This Season of Budget-Slashing,” Fort Worth Star-Telegram

    More about this quote: wist.info/ivins-molly/83595/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #mollyivins #conservatives #government #poor #poverty #publicpolicy #rightwing #safetynet #socialprogram #socialwelfare #welfare

  6. A Job I Like or a Job I Can Get: Designing Job #RecommenderSystems Using Field Experiments d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:arx:pape
    "… welfare-optimal RSs rank vacancies by an expected-surplus index, and shows why rankings based solely on utility, #hiring probabilities, or observed application behavior are generically suboptimal
    … Algorithms informed by the model-implied optimal ranking substantially outperform existing approaches and perform close to the welfare-optimal benchmark.

    While the joint application-and-hiring probability is not welfare-optimal in theory, it emerges as a strong empirical benchmark in our setting. This result is structural rather than algorithmic: application probabilities are empirically small and remain so even under recommendation rules designed to stimulate applications
    … rankings based solely on application behavior are theoretically fragile
    … Machine-learning tools can substantially improve matching outcomes, but only when embedded in a framework that defines the economic objective and disciplines behavioral assumptions with experimental evidence. Without such a framework, RSs optimized for observable behaviors may perform well on predictive metrics yet remain misaligned with welfare-relevant outcomes."
    #LaborMarkets #jobtech #socialWelfare #ExperimentalEcon

  7. A Job I Like or a Job I Can Get: Designing Job #RecommenderSystems Using Field Experiments d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:arx:pape
    "… welfare-optimal RSs rank vacancies by an expected-surplus index, and shows why rankings based solely on utility, #hiring probabilities, or observed application behavior are generically suboptimal
    … Algorithms informed by the model-implied optimal ranking substantially outperform existing approaches and perform close to the welfare-optimal benchmark.

    While the joint application-and-hiring probability is not welfare-optimal in theory, it emerges as a strong empirical benchmark in our setting. This result is structural rather than algorithmic: application probabilities are empirically small and remain so even under recommendation rules designed to stimulate applications
    … rankings based solely on application behavior are theoretically fragile
    … Machine-learning tools can substantially improve matching outcomes, but only when embedded in a framework that defines the economic objective and disciplines behavioral assumptions with experimental evidence. Without such a framework, RSs optimized for observable behaviors may perform well on predictive metrics yet remain misaligned with welfare-relevant outcomes."
    #LaborMarkets #jobtech #socialWelfare #ExperimentalEcon

  8. A Job I Like or a Job I Can Get: Designing Job #RecommenderSystems Using Field Experiments d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:arx:pape
    "… welfare-optimal RSs rank vacancies by an expected-surplus index, and shows why rankings based solely on utility, #hiring probabilities, or observed application behavior are generically suboptimal
    … Algorithms informed by the model-implied optimal ranking substantially outperform existing approaches and perform close to the welfare-optimal benchmark.

    While the joint application-and-hiring probability is not welfare-optimal in theory, it emerges as a strong empirical benchmark in our setting. This result is structural rather than algorithmic: application probabilities are empirically small and remain so even under recommendation rules designed to stimulate applications
    … rankings based solely on application behavior are theoretically fragile
    … Machine-learning tools can substantially improve matching outcomes, but only when embedded in a framework that defines the economic objective and disciplines behavioral assumptions with experimental evidence. Without such a framework, RSs optimized for observable behaviors may perform well on predictive metrics yet remain misaligned with welfare-relevant outcomes."
    #LaborMarkets #jobtech #socialWelfare #ExperimentalEcon

  9. A Job I Like or a Job I Can Get: Designing Job #RecommenderSystems Using Field Experiments d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:arx:pape
    "… welfare-optimal RSs rank vacancies by an expected-surplus index, and shows why rankings based solely on utility, #hiring probabilities, or observed application behavior are generically suboptimal
    … Algorithms informed by the model-implied optimal ranking substantially outperform existing approaches and perform close to the welfare-optimal benchmark.

    While the joint application-and-hiring probability is not welfare-optimal in theory, it emerges as a strong empirical benchmark in our setting. This result is structural rather than algorithmic: application probabilities are empirically small and remain so even under recommendation rules designed to stimulate applications
    … rankings based solely on application behavior are theoretically fragile
    … Machine-learning tools can substantially improve matching outcomes, but only when embedded in a framework that defines the economic objective and disciplines behavioral assumptions with experimental evidence. Without such a framework, RSs optimized for observable behaviors may perform well on predictive metrics yet remain misaligned with welfare-relevant outcomes."
    #LaborMarkets #jobtech #socialWelfare #ExperimentalEcon

  10. A Job I Like or a Job I Can Get: Designing Job #RecommenderSystems Using Field Experiments d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:arx:pape
    "… welfare-optimal RSs rank vacancies by an expected-surplus index, and shows why rankings based solely on utility, #hiring probabilities, or observed application behavior are generically suboptimal
    … Algorithms informed by the model-implied optimal ranking substantially outperform existing approaches and perform close to the welfare-optimal benchmark.

    While the joint application-and-hiring probability is not welfare-optimal in theory, it emerges as a strong empirical benchmark in our setting. This result is structural rather than algorithmic: application probabilities are empirically small and remain so even under recommendation rules designed to stimulate applications
    … rankings based solely on application behavior are theoretically fragile
    … Machine-learning tools can substantially improve matching outcomes, but only when embedded in a framework that defines the economic objective and disciplines behavioral assumptions with experimental evidence. Without such a framework, RSs optimized for observable behaviors may perform well on predictive metrics yet remain misaligned with welfare-relevant outcomes."
    #LaborMarkets #jobtech #socialWelfare #ExperimentalEcon

  11. A quotation from Victor Hugo

    Whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all. Ever since history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery has been the garment of the human race; the moment has at length arrived for tearing off that rag, and for replacing, upon the naked limbs of the Man-People, the sinister fragment of the past with the grand purple robe of the dawn.
     
    [Italiens ou français, la misère nous regarde tous. Depuis que l’histoire écrit et que la philosophie médite, la misère est le vêtement du genre humain; le moment serait enfin venu d’arracher cette guenille, et de remplacer, sur les membres nus de l’Homme-Peuple, la loque sinistre du passé par la grande robe pourpre de l’aurore.]

    Victor Hugo (1802-1885) French writer
    Letter (1862-10-18) to M. Daelli [tr. Wraxall (1862)]

    More about this quote: wist.info/hugo-victor/83222/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #victorhugo #lesmiserables #future #humancondition #humanity #misery #progress #reform #socialimprovement #socialreform #socialwelfare #woes

  12. A quotation from Franklin Roosevelt

    We understand the philosophy of those who offer resistance, of those who conduct a counter offensive against the American people’s march of social progress. It is not an opposition which comes necessarily from wickedness — it is an opposition that comes from subconscious resistance to any measure that disturbs the position of privilege.
       It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

    Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882–1945) American lawyer, politician, statesman, US President (1933–1945)
    Speech (1940-11-01), Campaign Address, Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York

    More about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-franklin-d…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #franklinroosevelt #franklindroosevelt #franklindelanoroosevelt #fdr #newdeal #avarice #change #conservatives #elite #greed #privilege #progress #socialjustice #socialwelfare #statusquo

  13. A quotation from Franklin Roosevelt

    We understand the philosophy of those who offer resistance, of those who conduct a counter offensive against the American people’s march of social progress. It is not an opposition which comes necessarily from wickedness — it is an opposition that comes from subconscious resistance to any measure that disturbs the position of privilege.
       It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

    Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882–1945) American lawyer, politician, statesman, US President (1933–1945)
    Speech (1940-11-01), Campaign Address, Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York

    More about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-franklin-d…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #franklinroosevelt #franklindroosevelt #franklindelanoroosevelt #fdr #newdeal #avarice #change #conservatives #elite #greed #privilege #progress #socialjustice #socialwelfare #statusquo

  14. A quotation from Franklin Roosevelt

    We understand the philosophy of those who offer resistance, of those who conduct a counter offensive against the American people’s march of social progress. It is not an opposition which comes necessarily from wickedness — it is an opposition that comes from subconscious resistance to any measure that disturbs the position of privilege.
       It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

    Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882–1945) American lawyer, politician, statesman, US President (1933–1945)
    Speech (1940-11-01), Campaign Address, Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York

    More about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-franklin-d…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #franklinroosevelt #franklindroosevelt #franklindelanoroosevelt #fdr #newdeal #avarice #change #conservatives #elite #greed #privilege #progress #socialjustice #socialwelfare #statusquo

  15. A quotation from Franklin Roosevelt

    We understand the philosophy of those who offer resistance, of those who conduct a counter offensive against the American people’s march of social progress. It is not an opposition which comes necessarily from wickedness — it is an opposition that comes from subconscious resistance to any measure that disturbs the position of privilege.
       It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

    Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882–1945) American lawyer, politician, statesman, US President (1933–1945)
    Speech (1940-11-01), Campaign Address, Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York

    More about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-franklin-d…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #franklinroosevelt #franklindroosevelt #franklindelanoroosevelt #fdr #newdeal #avarice #change #conservatives #elite #greed #privilege #progress #socialjustice #socialwelfare #statusquo

  16. A quotation from Franklin Roosevelt

    We understand the philosophy of those who offer resistance, of those who conduct a counter offensive against the American people’s march of social progress. It is not an opposition which comes necessarily from wickedness — it is an opposition that comes from subconscious resistance to any measure that disturbs the position of privilege.
       It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

    Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882–1945) American lawyer, politician, statesman, US President (1933–1945)
    Speech (1940-11-01), Campaign Address, Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York

    More about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-franklin-d…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #franklinroosevelt #franklindroosevelt #franklindelanoroosevelt #fdr #newdeal #avarice #change #conservatives #elite #greed #privilege #progress #socialjustice #socialwelfare #statusquo

  17. I can see many obvious benefits in decentralising WINZ call centre and case management functions to local community groups, at the same level of funding. So why do we still need WINZ offices at all?

    Because if we didn't have them, the benefit system would go the same way as the mental health system. It's much easier to get away with de-funding those community groups by 1000 cuts while expecting the same outputs, than to do it to WINZ.

    (1/?)

    #PublicService #SocialWelfare #beneficiaries #WINZ

  18. I can see many obvious benefits in decentralising WINZ call centre and case management functions to local community groups, at the same level of funding. So why do we still need WINZ offices at all?

    Because if we didn't have them, the benefit system would go the same way as the mental health system. It's much easier to get away with de-funding those community groups by 1000 cuts while expecting the same outputs, than to do it to WINZ.

    (1/?)

    #PublicService #SocialWelfare #beneficiaries #WINZ

  19. I can see many obvious benefits in decentralising WINZ call centre and case management functions to local community groups, at the same level of funding. So why do we still need WINZ offices at all?

    Because if we didn't have them, the benefit system would go the same way as the mental health system. It's much easier to get away with de-funding those community groups by 1000 cuts while expecting the same outputs, than to do it to WINZ.

    (1/?)

    #PublicService #SocialWelfare #beneficiaries #WINZ

  20. I can see many obvious benefits in decentralising WINZ call centre and case management functions to local community groups, at the same level of funding. So why do we still need WINZ offices at all?

    Because if we didn't have them, the benefit system would go the same way as the mental health system. It's much easier to get away with de-funding those community groups by 1000 cuts while expecting the same outputs, than to do it to WINZ.

    (1/?)

    #PublicService #SocialWelfare #beneficiaries #WINZ

  21. #Republicans Are All In on Boosting #Fraud Allegations in #California

    Right-wing #influencers who were instrumental in spreading allegations of fraud in #Minnesota ahead of ICE’s surge are now going after a number of California’s social welfare programs.
    #socialwelfare #ice #rightwing #maga #misinformation

    wired.com/story/republicans-bo

  22. While pledging to reduce the social security burden on working generations in the lead-up to the Feb. 8 general election, political parties continue to struggle with how to make the system financially sustainable. japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/01/ #japan #politics #elderly #welfare #2026lowerhouseelection #ldp #cra #sanseito #dpp #socialwelfare

  23. The scenes a soldier of the now-defunct Imperial Japanese Army witnessed after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima during World War II were enough to prompt him to build an orphanage still around today. japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/01/ #japan #society #hiroshima #atomicbombings #wwii #children #socialwelfare

  24. Wealth taxes are difficult to implement, risk reducing growth and capital and cannot solve the structural fiscal challenges facing aging societies and overpromising governments. japantimes.co.jp/commentary/20 #commentary #worldnews #wealth #taxes #rich #poverty #socialwelfare

  25. Heading into 2026, every pillar of the world order we have known since World War II’s end is crumbling, but despite this, a majority of electorates believe helping others is a reliable way to help oneself. japantimes.co.jp/commentary/20 #commentary #worldnews #donaldtrump #aid #hunger #development #socialwelfare

  26. The number of community cafeterias that provide free or low-cost meals mainly to children in need in Japan has reached a record 12,601 this fiscal year, according to a nonprofit organization's survey. japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/ #japan #food #poverty #socialwelfare #children #surveys

  27. TP Huế đang tích cực triển khai nhiều mô hình sản xuất sáng tạo trong giai đoạn 2022 - 2025, với mục tiêu giúp người dân thoát nghèo bền vững. Những nỗ lực này đang góp phần cải thiện đáng kể đời sống của bà con tại địa phương.

    #Huế #ThoátNghèo #AnSinhXãHội #ViệtNam
    #Hue #PovertyAlleviation #SocialWelfare #Vietnam

    vtcnews.vn/nhieu-mo-hinh-hay-g

  28. TP Huế đang tích cực triển khai nhiều mô hình sản xuất sáng tạo trong giai đoạn 2022 - 2025, với mục tiêu giúp người dân thoát nghèo bền vững. Những nỗ lực này đang góp phần cải thiện đáng kể đời sống của bà con tại địa phương.

    #Huế #ThoátNghèo #AnSinhXãHội #ViệtNam
    #Hue #PovertyAlleviation #SocialWelfare #Vietnam

    vtcnews.vn/nhieu-mo-hinh-hay-g

  29. This has gone beyond ridiculous. It's time to allow beneficiaries to select the social service agency we want to manage our case. Fully funded, independently of WINZ, and with the same access to MSD systems they have.

    Or, as I've said before, wipe the steaming remains of WINZ from the face of the earth, hand over benefits payments to IRD ("reverse taxation"), and move work brokers etc back to an employment service with no responsibility for benefit payments.

    #PolicyNZ #SocialWelfare #WINZ #IRD

  30. This has gone beyond ridiculous. It's time to allow beneficiaries to select the social service agency we want to manage our case. Fully funded, independently of WINZ, and with the same access to MSD systems they have.

    Or, as I've said before, wipe the steaming remains of WINZ from the face of the earth, hand over benefits payments to IRD ("reverse taxation"), and move work brokers etc back to an employment service with no responsibility for benefit payments.

    #PolicyNZ #SocialWelfare #WINZ #IRD

  31. This has gone beyond ridiculous. It's time to allow beneficiaries to select the social service agency we want to manage our case. Fully funded, independently of WINZ, and with the same access to MSD systems they have.

    Or, as I've said before, wipe the steaming remains of WINZ from the face of the earth, hand over benefits payments to IRD ("reverse taxation"), and move work brokers etc back to an employment service with no responsibility for benefit payments.

    #PolicyNZ #SocialWelfare #WINZ #IRD

  32. This has gone beyond ridiculous. It's time to allow beneficiaries to select the social service agency we want to manage our case. Fully funded, independently of WINZ, and with the same access to MSD systems they have.

    Or, as I've said before, wipe the steaming remains of WINZ from the face of the earth, hand over benefits payments to IRD ("reverse taxation"), and move work brokers etc back to an employment service with no responsibility for benefit payments.

    #PolicyNZ #SocialWelfare #WINZ #IRD