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...Singapore, whose own population is ageing, has become a favoured home for Asia’s millionaires, prompting local pushback to foreign workers and immigration....
...Helplessly, they watched as Italian police opened their container, discovering 63 bricks of cocaine covered in anti-scanning foil and hidden in banana boxes....
...Currently the organisation employs 112 full-time workers and 80 temporary staff — and the presence of a shifting army of people involved in the various individual projects boost local businesses....
...The rate is currently 63%, so for every extra £1 someone earns, their universal credit is reduced by 63p. Let us be in no doubt: this is a tax on work. And a high rate of tax at that....
...Monash University in Melbourne was one of dozens of universities that provided hardship funds and offered a food bank service....
...In effect, local government can no longer afford to stand up for itself....
...Other kinds of welfare provision have all sorts of provisos and small print but the NHS is just there, no matter what. It’s social protection writ large.”...
...and mutual funds....
...This, thankfully, has quietened as architects and workers on the ground focus on consolidating the monument....
...“I got a job as a community worker on the first estate here. The MKDC had bought up houses around the area and we got one of those....
...Once his rent arrears had hit £10,000, the local authority tried to evict him....
...We are no longer borrowing at all to finance current spending....
...Another way of looking at it… Michael Pettis And China used to consume 63% which no country in history has done....
...To deal with the unemployment risk, Beijing has introduced a Rmb100bn redeployment fund to provide settlement money and subsidies for laid-off workers....
...This fund will be allocated to local authorities by formula, and my RHF will set out details in due course....
...In addition, we are investing in local infrastructure in every region of England: I can announce the allocation of £1.8 billion from the Local Growth Fund to the English regions: £556 million to Local...
...At that time, no one tried to fund the future retirement benefits of SOE workers....
...Community Shop in Lambeth is no ordinary supermarket. A little more than a year old, it has signed up 650 local residents, who can shop for branded cupboard staples at bargain-basement prices....
...Gideon Rachman History Joseph Chamberlain: International Statesman, National Leader, Local Icon, edited by Ian Cawood and Chris Upton, Palgrave MacMillan, RRP£63/$100 Making sense of late 19th-century...
...It marked a clear shift towards social welfare spending to tackle income inequality and placed less of a priority on economic growth alone....
...Unemployment was virtually non-existent and businesses thrived as an army of workers arrived to work in the dozen mines that ring the town....
...In both western and eastern Europe, many urban districts seethe with competition for jobs, housing, education and welfare between less well-off native residents and hard-pressed recent settlers, some from...
...But they may be no less ugly, writes Barney Jopson....
...But even they admit to having only “modest funds for charitable disbursement”....
...Indeed, Carlos Ghosn, chief executive of Nissan-Renault, complained last year that it was cheaper for him to import steel made in South Korea from Brazilian iron ore, than to buy local products....
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