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The Taoiseach is quibbling with how child poverty is measured - here's the exact incomes involved
3+ day, 18+ hour ago (1127+ words) TAOISEACH MICHEÁL MARTIN has cast aspersions on the ESRI’s definition of the poverty line – so where exactly does the line fall? This week, the ESRI, Ireland’s leading economic think-tank, warned of a sharp rise in the number of children living…...
Labour Day is no day off for this Pickering mother working three jobs
6+ day, 14+ hour ago (1150+ words) Wesal TV (Pickering, Ont.): When the Labour Day weekend ends Monday, Anne Marie H. will not be resting. She will be at her industrial heat press in Pickering, filling custom orders for customers. “It’s just another long weekend, to be quite…...
Births dip below 30,000 as Nixie Lam urges rethink of family support
1+ week, 5+ day ago (348+ words) Legislative Council member Nixie Lam Lam has called for a high-level population policy task force to coordinate Hong Kong’s fertility measures, after the number of births fell below 30,000 over the past year. Speaking on a radio program on Wednesday, Lam…...
The Fight Over Affordability
1+ week, 5+ day ago (676+ words) We’re living in a period of excess business pricing power, not overbearing workers. Certain policymakers in the Trump administration and commentators associated with the so-called Abundance movement are again calling for affordability on the backs of workers. But instead of…...
Living in a World of Ongoing Shortages
2+ week, 1+ hour ago (190+ words) Marcus knew. His hands moved with the resignation of someone who has seen the delivery schedules, who knows that the truck due Tuesday isn’t coming, who understands that “supply chain issues” has become a permanent euphemism for a fundamental restructuring…...
Will fixing Hong Kong’s childcare bottleneck help lift the city’s birth rate?
2+ week, 7+ hour ago (185+ words) Parents and social welfare groups say demand for childcare services remains high even as births fall below 30,000 for 12-month period Shortly after Erica Lam found out she was pregnant with her second child, submitting a day care application for her…...
THE ECONOMIST | Affordability
2+ week, 1+ day ago (291+ words) Published 11:35 am Saturday, August 29, 2026 Over the past few years, costs of living have increased significantly faster than wages, thus creating a major affordability problem for millions of Americans. It is a hot-button campaign topic at present, but the real issue…...
China's free final-year kindergarten policy benefits 24m children: ministry
3+ week, 3+ day ago (144+ words) BEIJING -- About 24 million children enrolled in kindergartens across China have benefited from a policy waiving childcare and education fees for the final year of preschool, a finance official said on Friday. Meanwhile, more than 25 million infants and toddlers have received…...
Raising a child now costs more than $303,000, study finds
3+ week, 3+ day ago (227+ words) (InvestigateTV) — The cost of raising a child to age 18 has climbed to more than $303,000 nationwide, according to a LendingTree study — a figure that comes out to nearly $17,000 a year after tax exemptions and credits. Matt Schulz, a LendingTree analyst, said…...
Business Insider's Nelken-Zitser covering modern life affordability
3+ week, 3+ day ago (172+ words) Business Insider has promoted Joshua Nelken-Zitser to correspondent in its London bureau. He will cover a new beat: the affordability of modern life. Nelken-Zitser has been at Business Insider since 2020. He previously spent five years on the news desk, most…...