#poverty lines

[povertyeradicationday]

Implementation of cash for work Programmes in Iraq.

About seven million Iraqis – nearly a quarter of the population – live in poverty, and there are few decent jobs as the economy struggles to recover. 

UNDP in Iraq has partnered with the Danish Refugee Council (DRC) to provide immediate livelihoods assistance to people in Diyala and Salah with funding from the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) provided through KFW Development Bank to support people of Diyala and Salah. 

Cash-for-work programmes in Iraq were one way to help people overcome poverty and shocks and build the foundations for longer-term resilience. 

Addressing poverty—especially given the multitude of prevailing challenges—requires a multidimensional approach that focuses on both tangible and intangible deprivations. 

#poverty alleviation #united nations development programme (undp) #Iraq #undp #decent job #poverty lines

[alwaysbewoke]

#universal basic income #UBI #social welfare #unconditional transfer payment #means test #guaranteed minimum income #poverty line #full basic income #partial basic income #pilot projects #Mongolia #Iran #child benefit #pension #Bolsa Familia #Thamarat Program #economic crisis #COVID-19 pandemic #direct payments #Alaska Permanent Fund #negative income tax #NIT

[chronicallycouchbound]

I refuse to call government assistance programs “welfare” or “benefits”.

I’ve been on government assistance programs my whole life. I have never lived above the poverty line.

It’s a system that doesn’t care about my wellbeing, they care about doing the bare minimum to keep people alive enough to function and work, and if you’re disabled and cannot work, they give significantly less of a fuck.

And benefits?? What benefits?

Food stamps that run out within two weeks because I am budgeting with 8$ a day with literally dozens of dietary restrictions? Or do you mean the housing voucher that I have to never even have a gift card, penny to my name, Sams club membership, phone bill, literally anything that could be “income” in order to qualify? That same housing voucher system that if I mess up even once with I not only lose all government aid for at least 5 years, it’s also mandatory PRISON time for 1 year?? “Oh but they would never do that, right?” Nope! I have several friends who are now felons for minor lease violations and unhoused as a result! Oh maybe you mean the state health insurance that doesn’t cover most treatments, specialists, and testing I need and if I tried to make a gofundme to cover, I would lose aforementioned housing? Oh and we can’t forget all the money I get for being disabled, which is exactly 0$. I’m still fighting for SSI and have been for 6 years! That’s over 6 years with absolutely zero income. ZERO. And guess what, whenever I *do* get on SSI, I will lose my housing voucher. And I won’t be able to afford my current apartment because even in subsidized low income housing it’s too expensive for the maximum SSI “benefit” amount. And on SSI you can’t have savings over 2000$. Oh and they do make housing for people who are low income where you pay 30% of your income but I can’t even be on the waitlist since I don’t have any income. And on top of all this, I can never get married because I’ll lose all of the programs.

I could keep going. That’s not even half of the programs I’m a part of.

• None of them give me cash in hand. Even for vouchers I have to provide receipts for everything.

• Food stamps just straight up won’t even cover ineligible items. Which includes hot foods.

• I genuinely don’t believe that there’s a way to “game the system” and why would you? You would gain literally nothing.

• It’s designed to keep people poor. Once you make over a certain amount, you lose all or almost all benefits. There’s no way to slowly transition out of the programs, if you’re someone who’s able to. It’s all in or all out.

• All of these barriers are made significantly worse while unhoused/homeless. I’ve been homeless for over half of my life and there’s so many fucked up rules. If I missed one night staying in the shelter, I lost my housing voucher because I no longer was “verified as homeless” even if I was sleeping outside still.

#ranting #poverty #public welfare #welfare programs #government aid #government benefits #state benefits #disability benefits #SSI #disability #poor #poverty line #assistance #assistance programs #goverment assistance #usa specific #usa politics #chronically couchbound #poor people #classism #food stamps #ebt #housing vouchers #medicaid #state insurance #healthcare #health insurance #systemic poverty #forced poverty #welfare queen

[hellenhighwater]

why are you lying about being rich

ah drat, you've found me out! the billions in gold bullion that I have in my basement and swim through like scrooge mcduck have been discovered!

To be extremely clear, absolutely none of you have any right to know jack about my finances or any other detail of my life. You wanna talk about how to make your home cool on a shoestring budget, great; happy to chat. But the exact second someone goes fishing for personal information is the time I tell them to block and unfollow. You guys are not entitled to any part of my life beyond what I willingly divulge. I'm not being rude but this is a hard line for me when it comes to social media. This is a public forum and I do not have any obligation to you.

#guys you do realize that just because a person is not visibly living paycheck to paycheck #that doesnt make them rich #i am maybe middle class #and if you think that's 'rich' you need to reassess where you are drawing 'us v them' sorts of lines #because the middle class is closer to poverty than wealth

[rosepompadour]

One day I shall be the princess, and spend my whole life dancing in fairyland.

Anna Pavlova, I Dreamed I Was A Ballerina (1922)

#anna pavlova #ballet #i love reading about people from history who make these ridiculously prescient claims of greatness #and everyone around them at the time is just like 'sure! whatever!' #but then they actually DO IT #😱 #i live for that shit #there's a letter from fitzgerald where he says 'i shall write a novel better than any novel ever written in america'...and he DID THAT #don't you just love it! #i feel like some of our greatest artists (pavlova and fitzgerald being prime examples) almost HAD to be these crazy dreamers #because there was literally no one else who was going to do it for them #look at anna! her mom takes her to see sleeping beauty and anna's like 'mom i'm going to be the best ballerina who ever lived!' #and her mom is like 'we are literally living below the poverty line and you've never so much as twirled but OKAY!' #she probably thought anna would forget about it in a week #arrested development narrator: 'anna did not forget about it in a week.' #🩰💗

[shayberri789]

Something about how in chapter 4 of trc Adam is insecure about the fray on his second hand sweater, and how it's a symbol of his background and insecurities, and how most people don't notice it, and if they did, they didnt think better of him for it

And how Blue saw it immediately and it was something she liked about him, a girl too good at seeing the vulnerabilities of other people, but Adam didnt want someone to see his insecurities, didn't want someone to acknowledge that life

But Gansey did. Gansey needed someone to see him at his worst and love him for it, and blue did that

And how Adam needed someone to see him at his most unruly, and encouraged that

And Ronan makes Adam loud

#i love these ships sm. adam and blue were never going to work out because they needed different things out of a relationship #blue needed honesty. she needed someone who wouldnt try and hide from her or keep her seperate from their life #and adam didn't want someone who was always going to see what he tried to hide and would remind him of it #by virtue of coming from a similar place #gansey is always so strong for everyone and so repressed he didnt think he was ALLOWED to have bad days #and when he was vulnerable with blue instead of pushing him away she liked him more for it #while ronan looked at adam and *saw* him and then did not remind him of it #quite help in the background; treating him thr same as anyone else; showing him its okay to be wild and his life isnt defined #by the line between the poverty of love and money of his youth and his ambitions for the future #have i made a lick of sense #im tired and doint my second reread of the year #when will this series free me #shay posts #trc #trc brainrot #gansey my blorbo #the raven cycle #the raven boys #the dream thieves #blue lily lily blue #the raven king #gansey #bluesey #blue sargent #adam parrish #ronan lynch #pynch #richard gansey #richard campbell gansey iii

[reasonsforhope]

If you're wondering why I set up ko-fi membership stuff after I really resisted monetizing in any way for so long, btw... Honestly, it's because taxes and some big surprise vet bills this month kinda. decimated my savings. by a lot.

Normally I'm okay enough financially, but I'm in a really high cost of living area, and it's just been a really rough month in a lot of different ways.

So, if you're interested in supporting me or my work, whether it's with a membership or a one-time thing or whatever - and only if you can genuinely afford it - that would honestly be amazing and more helpful than I strictly like to admit

As an extra incentive, if this ko-fi thing goes well, I'll commit to actually answering asks and shit again lol

Either way <3 <3 to all of you

#me #admin #blog business #not news #ko fi #the federal tax system is fucking broken #literally appalling that I made below the poverty line last year and still owed $2k in taxes #that should be illegal to do to anyone #not that “the US tax system is broken” is news to anyone but yknow it bears repeating #vet bills are like medical bills also super broken in the us #I should not have to pay this much money just to say goodbye to my baby #..................yeah like I said rough month #maybe keep me and my baby Roo in your thoughts this week #that would be really kind <3

[thecruellestmonth]

Do you guys really believe that killing is the singular bad thing that cops do?

Or even that killing is the most frequent bad thing that cops do?

Are you saying that if cops didn't kill, then they'd be the same as Batman? Because then you're suggesting that effectively Batman already is a cop, with the exception that he hasn't killed (just like the majority of U.S. cops, who have never once shot or killed anybody).

I'm a bit worried to see opinions suggesting that only killing is wrong—and that violence, stalking, and humiliation are okay. In real-life, police commit countless acts of those "little" abuses, terrorizing entire communities, before they murder anybody.

Invading people's privacy is wrong. Hurting people to the point of hospitalization is wrong. Forcibly drugging people is wrong. Putting people in cages is wrong. Torture and "enhanced interrogation" are wrong. Ambushing people in their homes and safe places is wrong. Keeping inexhaustible wealth is wrong.

Superhero comics are power fantasies. Not all fantasies need to reflect our ideology in reality. But once you apply your real-life values to fiction, once you decide that fiction showcases exemplary real-life ideology—then your praise for Batman's ideology does become a worrying reflection of your real-life understanding of social issues.

#copaganda #Bruce Wayne critical #GCPD #fandom discourse #Batman copaganda #police brutality cw #Almost sorry to drag serious discussion of copaganda into ridiculous superhero comics but I swear the other guys started it first... #To be clear I'm completely disinterested in condemning or interrogating Bruce over his personal choice not to kill. #But I am so fascinated in how he justifies his own use of violence and privilege!!! So very very fascinated!! #Once again: LESLIE THOMPKINS IS RIGHT. #Actually I'm not gonna tag this post as @nti Bruce W@yne--because really I enjoy canon Bruce a hell of a lot more than his stans do lol. #Sorry but Batman isn't a darling anti-cop revolutionary. If he were then he'd get in line behind Green Arrow and like the Invisibles. #I mean maybe The Audio Adventures version is anti cop but still in a free-market libertarian power fantasy kind of way if you can dig that. #violence mention cw #murder mention cw #fandom drama #This is why Cheer doesn't work because Red Hood realizes 'Oh I don't want kids to lose their parents like I lost mine-- #--therefore I won't murder anymore. It's time to put my faith in the system. 👼👼👼' #Jason sweetie... you lost your father firstly to criminalization and incarceration for property crime. #You lost your mother to poverty and addiction. You are actually not like Batdaddy and your trauma is not a mere echo of his trauma. #Batman discourse

[keepthetension]

still stuck on mhok's trauma, unsurprisingly. i keep thinking about the opening scenes of this show, showing us day losing his sight, and mhok losing rung. i really thought that the show would spend equal time and care on both

my first post about this show was pointing out that the first shot of day is a close up of his eyes, and the first time we see mhok, he's holding something in his mouth. and i thought it was so interesting that we see mhok gagged, because society generally doesn't care what people who've been incarcerated have to say. or poor people. and by and large, it doesn't care about the voices of traumatized people, either

and i was so curious to see what the show was going to do with that. i can't believe the show itself was never really interested in what mhok has to say

and i'm stuck on mhok's time in hawaii. the show highlighted over and over again how poor he is, and we know that he didn't like studying. what are his english skills like? we saw singha there, and i think one other thai person. was that the extent of his social circle? he seemed pretty happy to leave hawaii behind, so did he make no new friends? did he spend his days off just sitting in his room by himself, the way day did when he went to songkla with mhok?

i assume he and porjai were still in touch, but he moved abroad at a time when his ptsd was getting worse, and in the wake of a terrible breakup, and he just walked all of that off? alone???

feeling overly protective and over-responsible is absolutely an understandable trauma response for mhok, but you know what else is? losing a relationship, and feeling like you HAVE to go back and fix it, and that if you can just get a do-over, you'll be able to do everything perfectly this time, and you'll get everything right, and everything will be okay! this makes more sense to me in the final episode than the idea of mhok and day having a happily ever after does

#last twilight the series #last twilight #the thing is i don't think his healing journey had to be explicitly shown and there was plenty you could kind of infer #like going from dumping porjai so he doesn't drag her down to telling day he's done playing games and WILL ask him out at the finish line #that's a big step! it says a lot about his headspace and how he sees himself! #but i started getting nervous when PORJAI told day about rung OFFSCREEN. mhok didn't even share that himself! and it wasn't her place tbh! #lol i even kinda understood where day was coming from in ep11 because mhok never mentioned the nightmares and flashbacks and stuff #and you CAN hide that stuff from a sighted partner too ofc but it made sense that day'd wonder what else mhok could hide from him like i ge #why that'd make day feel extra vulnerable! but no somehow the breakup was ALL about pity? i still don't totally get that tbh. and all the #trauma stuff was just pushed under the rug?? and i wonder if day was pitying mhok by insisting he take the opportunity to go abroad #like: you're poor when else are you going to get an opportunity like this? i don't THINK that's what was happening but i can't unthink it #idk my heart just aches for mhok #the quadruple whammy of poverty + trauma + classism + incerceration and i thought all of that would play a bigger role #also by the way ptsd is a disability too!

[elvain]

picture this: i hold you gently in my arms and brush your hair out of your eyes. i smile at you tenderly. i lean in, brush my lips against the shell of your ear and sceam STOP FUCKING CASTING TAYLOR SWIFT AS DAZZLER. JUST SAY YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND THIS CHARACTER AND WALK AWAY. then i kill you with hammers and cars until you're dead.

#im SOOOO sick of you guys #give me ONE reason why youre not casting dazzler as a Black woman first of all when thats what her creators wanted #and then give me a reason why you think TS needs to be involved in the world anymore than she already fucking is #LEAST OF ALL AS ALISON BLAIRE DADDY ISSUES MOMMY ISSUES BELOW THE POVERTY LINE DAZZLER #god jesus fuck #shes going on a high shelf. away from you all. #mk.post

[povertyeradicationday]

Tackling Poverty and unemployment in Jordan.

A recent report released by the World Bank has revealed that over one-third of Jordan's population lives below the poverty line. 

UNDP Jordan provides hands-on training for women to fight poverty and transform the lives and opportunities of women and their families and support the local economy so they can start their own businesses that can create new jobs and boost the local economy. 

The CO supported youth to overcome poverty. Mariam Al-Fares, an inspiring 27-year-old young woman, benefited from the “Promoting Local Economic Development Programme in Jordan”." Funded by the EU and managed by the Ministry of Interior, the project enabled her to overcome poverty and social barriers and become a well-known entrepreneur in Ajloun, one of the successful small business owners. 

#Jordan #poverty alleviation #poverty lines #UNDP #united nations development programme (undp)

[antaripirate]

I JUST FOUND OUT MY MASTERS DEGREE SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATION WAS SUCCESSFUL AND MY ENTIRE MASTERS DEGREE IS GOING TO BE FULLY FUNDED PLUS ALL CONFERENCES AND LAB COSTS

I WAS SO CONVINCED I WOULDN’T GET IT BECAUSE ONLY ONE PERSON IS AWARDED IT BUT I GOT IT AND I CANNOT EXPLAIN HOW HAPPY I AM

I ACTUALLY CAN’T FUCKING BELIEVE IT

#apologies for the random personal post #will delete it later #for context i grew up below the poverty line #and i was so sure i wouldn’t get this scholarship bc of the odds #but i got it #and i’m gonna cry #because now i don’t have to live off 78p a day #sorry again for the personal shitpost #tumblr is where my emotions get dumped

[oldshrewsburyian]

This is a sweeping, impressively-researched history... and I finished it in about three days. Mikanowski uses both his relevant PhD and his relevant family history, and the results are fascinating. Not only is the research impressive and methodologically rich, but the prose is so good it makes me feel like a hack.

#history side of tumblr #goodbye eastern europe #jacob mikanowski #non fiction #i just submitted final proofs for my book and am proud of it being Quite Adequate (I think) stylistically #meanwhile this guy #in my defense #i am betting that he has not had to deal with adventures in poverty-line living and professional precarity while writing the book

[writterings]

i feel like a harm reduction mindset should be applied to most things. like, harm reduction as in "i am giving you the researched and objective facts of your [x often perceived risky behavior] so you can make your own informed decisions, free of judgement or moralization on my part." like im not even talking about stuff like health or whatever im straight up talking about personal finance courses. why do so many of them just tell you what to do without giving you the full scope of what your choices are or how some legal stuff works.

#trying to educate myself on finance recently since i got a raise at work and im earning more money than i ever had before #despite still being below the poverty line on my income alone lol #but anwyays my parents suck at finance and are 40k in debt and im 40k in school debt and my brother is 17k in school debt so i think i kind #need to start taking care of my finances esp since i help my family lmfao

[whitedemon-ladydeath]

no but actually something on tiktok made me think of Cassian and Feyre and Nesta and Elain and how like,,, the inverse happened to each of them

Cassian went from having no money to being BFFs with the High Lord and suddenly getting a very comfortable life

the Archeron Sisters going from being wealthy to being very poor???

HELLO WHY WASNT THIS EXPANDED ON

and writing this made me think about how quick Cassian weaponized the Cabin Years against Nesta when he met her. and that made me think hm. he's Illyrian. Do the women in those camps not break their backs doing domestic work? do they not face subjugation and aren't allowed to train or whatever?

Feyre took on the masculine role in their family but Cassian went straight for Nesta bec she wasn't having it with Feyre bringing fae into her house

of fucking course he expected Nesta to break her back running her family bec she's the oldest and she's very squarely feminine in a way Feyre is Not

let's go with misogyny and not the nuance and conversations around CLASSISM AND POVERTY SARAH COME ON THEY WERE RIGHT THERE. THEY COULD HAVE TALKED ABOUT THE TRAUMA OF JUST BEING FUCKING POOR WITH NO RESOURCES

#ofc sarah would bever. she has no idea what its like on the poverty line. jer spoiled ass probably would be horrified by ppl on FOOD STAMPS #a court of thorns and roses #acotar #nesta archeron #sjm critical #feyre archeron #cassian critical #anti cassian #acotar meta #poverty is straight up trauma especially in the US #justice for poor cassian and poor archeron girls

[nialltlynch]

turning back into a guy who posts random trc excerpts

#anyway. was thinking about the Poverty Twins line #im slapping ronans bald head #haha classic