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UN calls for $20 billion global social safety net for poor countries
Most people are not protected against unemployment, illness, disability, crop failure or soaring food costs. But investing in social protection would save on emergency relief, argues the UN UN experts have called for a $20bn global fund to promote the creation of social safety nets for the most vulnerable people…
Commenting on Thersites’ comments section appeals to my sense of nostalgia
parsec, in the comments at Whiskey Fire, says something which triggered an “Oh, of COURSE” moment: I’ll never understand why [wingnuts] think national healthcare and a social safety net will sap their precious bodily fluids. Instead of trying to yank on imaginary bootstraps they could be using a just social…
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