In addition, neighborhood organizations in Taipei evolved to empower urban communities to gain more access to welfare programs.
They each play host to a web of federal programs for the needy or unemployed, offering training, job listings and, in most states, access to welfare programs like food stamps and unemployment insurance.
Launched nine years ago as a simple and revolutionary way to streamline access to welfare programs for India's poor, the database has become Indians' gateway to nearly any type of service ― from food stamps to a passport or a cell phone connection.
It is obvious that in the present situation the state does not have the capacities and financial means to address the needs for social protection and to ensure equal access to welfare programs throughout its territory.
But regardless of motives, the consequence persists: 150 years after emancipation, African-Americans still lack access to social welfare programs that millions of other Americans enjoy.
Taking readers from the turn of the twentieth century to the dark days of the Depression, the author finds that, despite rampant nativism, European immigrants received generous access to social welfare programs.
Wounded veterans learn they have two basic choices: They can receive almost $3,000 a month in disability benefits along with medical care and access to various other welfare programs, or they can try to find a job.
Women have historically been politically marginalized and disenfranchised, and with an administration and Republican Senate majority that is actively hostile to things such as abortion rights, protections for vulnerable populations, social welfare programs and access to healthcare, there is a real hunger for women's concerns to be taken seriously and turned into political action.
Second, rural residents lack adequate access to healthcare, since the collectively-funded welfare programs (hezuo yiliao) were abandoned in most rural areas in the early 1980s and healthcare became predominantly employment-based.
Europe, in Madrid and London, has also been attacked by jihadists, but its unease goes deeper — to chronic unemployment and aging and resentments spurred by the access of immigrants to elaborate, now cash-strapped social welfare programs.
Over the past nine years, India's government has built a vast infrastructure of welfare programs to feed and employ the rural poor and give them access to private hospitals — programs thought to result from Mrs. Gandhi's socialist tendencies.
