by Beth | Jun 13, 2004 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
WASHINGTON, June 12 – The Bush administration said Saturday that it would rescind a federal policy that threatened to cut food stamp benefits for several million low-income elderly and disabled people who save money on their medicines by using the new Medicare...
by Beth | Jun 8, 2004 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
SYDNEY, June 9, 2004 (smh.com.au): The gap between high and low incomes is growing – but not for the reasons you’d think, writes Ross Gittins in The Sydney Morning Herald According to a recent Roy Morgan poll, 88 per cent of people believe the gap between...
by Beth | Jun 6, 2004 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
WASHINGTON, June 5 — Federal and state officials are expressing alarm about the proliferation of food stores that cater to low-income people but charge more than other grocery stores, thus driving up the cost of a major federal nutrition program. The program, the...
by Beth | Jun 4, 2004 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
MELBOURNE, June 3, 2004 (theage.com.au): This (Australian) Government does not want to hear criticism – especially from the poor, writes Kenneth Davidson in The Age ….  When the poor speak, who listens? …. The ability of groups to provide...
by Beth | May 14, 2004 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
SYDNEY, May 12, 2004 (coss.net.au): The Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS)Â today responded in detail to the tax cuts announced in the federal Budget warning that they would weaken Australia and divide Australians. Â “The $4 billion a year tax cuts...
