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Wenn man in Deutschland in einem Sender einen Menschen einlaed, welcher sich zu Armut äußern soll, waere es hilfreich wenn Themen wie das SGBII nur angesprochen werden, sofern Expertise vorliegt.
Nicht "Beschämung" oder "fehlendes Wissen" führt dazu, dass es Millionen Menschen gibt, welche keine Leistungen nach dem SGBII beantragen, sondern aufgrund der Information ueber den Erstantrag wird bereits ersichtlich, dass mit Drohung gearbeitet wird.
Das #SGBII beinhaltet eine Ausrichtung als "Sozialgesetzgebung", wo es nicht mehr darum geht, dass die Lebensrealität der Menschen im Vordergrund steht, sondern stellt eine buerokratische Leistungsabwehr dar, weswegen die Arbeitslosenversicherung keinen Schutz bietet.
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Today, in England, millions of voters make a choice in their #LocalElections2023. It’s a good time to share some new research that is related to two policy issues that will have touched many people over the last year: the #energycrisis & #crime.
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In a nutshell, the paper shows that much of the widely reported surge in burglaries & anti-social behaviour could have been avoided, had the government provided more targeted energy price subsidies or had UK invested more in making homes more energy efficient. Last summer, ... ImageImageImageImage
I modelled the impact of the energy price shock down to the property level for millions of homes. More #energyinefficient homes would see a bigger increase. Part of this work was reported in @FT as an interactive story ig.ft.com/uk-energy-effi…. This set up a framework to study... Image
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Be afraid, be VERY afraid. Today's #Expreshit JRM article: Supply Side Reforms

NHS privatisation, remove worker rights, bash unions further, reduce unemployment benefits EVEN FURTHER, deregulate the banks - they've already had a £1 BILLION tax cut, whilst the rest of us suffer.. ImageImage
ELECTIONS BILL: VoterID disenfranchises MILLIONS of Labour voters, MILLIONS, let that sink in
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Dear all:if you're here because you enjoy the #dailytarot,I have a boon to ask.
Good fortune gets better when shared(and always comes back to you if you do:maybe not in the way you expect).
So if you donate to your local #foodbank,I will read your #tarot for you. Thread begins:/1
Any donation will earn you a 1-card pull.
£10/$15 or more earns you 3:past,present,future.
£20/$25 gets you a full 10-card Celtic Cross.
Receipts for cash donations are fine,or photos of donation boxes to an equivalent sum.
I'll just trust they're real(your karma,not mine,bud.)/2
I also encourage EVERYONE to do donation boxes whenever they can,especially with Yule coming up - things are going to get HARSH for an awful lot of people this year. Anything can help your local #foodbank,but the right stuff helps more. Check their lists - or use my one below. /3
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This morning we saw something we will NEVER forget.

We were at the #Walmart in Southeast #Calgary. We were shopping for some groceries when my stepson saw someone take a package of meat and put it under their shirt and then slowly walk over to their cart. #Food #Hungry #Alberta
This person had very few things in their cart. My stepson knows what I do here at @HarvestHillsYYC & he asked if we could help them.

I said yes we could but that this person would feel ganged up on if we all walked over to them, so I told him to stay here and that I’d walk over.
I walked over to where they had their cart and said “I know what it is like to struggle. I would love it if you’d let me help you and I’d like to pay for your groceries.”

This person looked up at me and said “did you see me take the meat?” I said “yes I did. I’d like to help”.
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Daily Bookmarks to GAVNet 10/27/2020 greeneracresvaluenetwork.wordpress.com/2020/10/27/dai…
Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time by Carroll Quigley

wanttoknow.info/articles/trage…

#capitalism #economics #history
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'I've sold everything. My wedding ring, my engagement ring. I've sold everything I possibly could.'

This from one of many families hit hard by the pandemic, who'd never had to use a #foodbank before.
Both parents lost their jobs during lockdown and waited 7 weeks to receive first payment of #UniversalCredit.

But they've been shocked at how low #UniversalCredit support is.

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'I thought they'd be able to pay for our rent, and we'd be able to get enough money to buy food and pay bills. But actually, they don't. They just about give us enough money to pay our rent.' 3/3
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We’re going to be live tweeting this morning from the #foodbank at Woodgate Adventure Playground. Here we are setting up for this morning’s session. We open at 10am.We now have 200 users! 🥕🥦🍎😜🥒
We’ve just had 300 eggs kindly donated. If anyone can donate empty egg boxes we are very much in need! 🥚 🥚 🥚 #foodbank
Lots of cardboard needs compacting & recycling every time we put the food out! #foodbank
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Ok @Twitter You want to know “What’s Happening?” Well I’ll tell you!

We @HarvestHillsYYC woke up this morning to a bunch of emails and texts and voicemails from AISH clients who have:
A.) Not gotten their AISH payment.
B.) Got their AISH payment but it wasn’t the full amount.
C.) Didn’t get their AISH payment and have been frantically trying to call the support line to talk to anyone or get ahold of their worker...only to not get a call back.
We are working as fast as we can to sort everyone who had asked us for help into our respective categories, and if we have permission from anyone to share a story about their situation we will. But until then all we can say is this:
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Foodbank Study Blames Benefit System for Increase on people needing emergency food.

If only you're just discovering that Universal Credit is punitive & uncaring, here's one day of the numerous reports by @TrussellTrust highlighting why.
universalcreditsuffer.com/2019/11/05/new…
Foodbanks in full Universal Credit areas see 52% increase in use and are feeling the strain.

And another report showing how Universal Credit is fuelling #foodbank use.

universalcreditsuffer.com/2018/06/03/foo… via @RespectIsVital
DAMNING study shows Universal Credit IS to blame for rise in poverty and foodbank use

You guessed it, ANOTHER damning report on Universal Credit.....
universalcreditsuffer.com/2018/10/05/dam…
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How broken are borough council @RedditchMatters & local government policies, when most of the stories in the weekly paper @RedStand are about people trying to patch the massive holes in the social fabric...
Support Redditch #FoodBank this Christmas. Let's not demand & enable a more just and fairer society instead...
redditchstandard.co.uk/news/shoppers-…
Redditch Lions raise funds for @ChildrenInNeed. If only all those tax dodging corporations like @BootsUK paid their tax perhaps children wouldn't be in need...
redditchstandard.co.uk/news/redditch-…
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On @Channel4News tonight: Food charities and industry tell government “Stop passing the buck” on responsibility for ensuring vulnerable people can get the food they need in a #NoDeal Brexit food crisis.” Pensioners, children in low-income families, people who are ill or disabled.
Government’s Yellowhammer #NoDeal Briefing says food prices could go up, serious delays and disruption to food supply. With 8.4m people in this country already food insecure, “What happens if demand for emergency food aid goes up? Whose job is it to step in?” asks @Channel4News
Serious concerns over food supply for vulnerable people in a #NoDeal Brexit shared by @UKSustain @FareShareUK @provtrade @FWDwholesale @IFAN_UK @CityHarvest_LDN - with no-deal price hikes and disruption now imminent @DWP must allocate hardship fund- long heralded, never confirmed
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Labour's Shadow Chancellor, @johnmcdonnellMP, has released a statement regarding the sickening news that single parents and families will lose £200 per month under #UniversalCredit.
His statement is in response to this.

#DWP boss Esther McVey admits millions to lose £200 a month on #UniversalCredit

McVey has been forced to admit single parents and families face a £2400 a year benefit cut next year
universalcreditsuffer.com/2018/10/06/est…
Just the day before this came out;

DAMNING study shows Universal Credit to blame for dramatic rise in foodbank use.

#UniversalCredit to blame for a rise in claimants experiencing debt & #mentalhealth issues

Not to mention a 52% increase in #foodbank use
universalcreditsuffer.com/2018/10/05/dam…
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