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...Interviews with staff from numerous hospitals showed how deeply it is affecting nurses, provoking a crisis of morale that threatens to endure beyond any retreat of the disease....
...This is striking, given the company’s dismal record on employee welfare. But workers’ rights advocates want more than just talk and plan walkouts across the US today....
...This story, and similar pieces larded with schadenfreude about a raft of companies backed by a mixture of venture, growth, petro, hedge and mutual fund dollars, suggests that Silicon Valley has only one...
...The organisation, known as the “medal factory” for the success of its cyclists at three successive Olympics, is shown to have few controls on “autocratic” coaches and a focus on victory above the welfare...
...Since President Evo Morales took office a decade ago, a combination of gas and mineral exports, prudent macroeconomic and fiscal policies, and popular welfare programmes, have tripled the size of Bolivia...
...Mr Morales used state hydrocarbon revenues to fund “gas to cash” bonds, conditional transfer schemes benefiting pensioners, expectant mothers, schoolchildren and families....
...If you look at papers on how much welfare helps people like the Rebecca Blank papers, you do see an effect where if there are comparable groups, one group gets a welfare transfer and the other doesn’t, welfare...
...“The problem is not money,” says Ricardo Paes de Barros, who helped design Brazil’s much-lauded social welfare scheme, Bolsa Família, and is chief economist at São Paulo’s Ayrton Senna Institute and professor...
...He went on to nationalise electricity, water, mining and the railways, while increasing welfare spending....
...These troubles blend with cutbacks to its all-embracing welfare state, discontent at perceived high levels of immigration and a widening gap between political elites and public opinion....
...The fact Mr Osborne was looking to raise money to fund a £3.5bn increase in the tax threshold and the controversial cut in the 50p top rate of tax pushed old ideas to the top of the agenda....
...He must carry out spending reform to keep the nation solvent, and try not to alienate too many voters who benefit from the welfare system....
...A City of London report also found “the individual employee benefits from improved morale and increased motivation, job satisfaction and commitment to the company, all as a direct result of the opportunities...
...“Morale is very low.”...
...It is a mandate that we accept with humility and a firm resolve to do all that we can for the welfare of this nation....
...But in recent weeks opposition morale has been boosted by the defection of the ex-defence minister and former General Raúl Baduel to its ranks and by signs of growing opposition to Mr Chávez among students...
...Welfare-to-work: A tricky task for the successor Welfare-to-work is a policy indelibly linked to New Labour and Gordon Brown....
...This is intended both to make bondholders sweat and to smooth domestic political considerations that demand his government first pay the salaries of public servants and hand out welfare cheques, both due...
...Monetary Fund or other multilateral institutions....
...Public funds would thereby be released for investment in Brazil’s crumbling infrastructure....
...Even Mr Morales in Bolivia, the poorest country in Latin America, is so flush with funds from higher gas and mineral prices and new taxes that he has been able to create 4,500 jobs for teachers and 1,000...
...welfare provision that Brazilians can only dream of....
...s economy would boom, with low borrowing costs and a generous welfare system encouraging a spending binge....
...Its pension fund is in deficit by £325m. In total, the pension funds of all FTSE 100 companies are estimated to be in deficit by about £75bn, according to accountants Deloitte and Touche....
...The idea was that allowing some funds to be invested in personal accounts would bring them into the Republican ranks of investors and owners while undercutting Democrats’ claims about the essential roles...
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