As Britain shaves public services and benefits, advocates contend that women bear more than their fair share of the pain.
In 2003, when President George W. Bush proposed to give states new power to reduce or eliminate optional Medicaid benefits, advocates for poor people and the disabled denounced the idea.
But as with other stimulus measures or social safety programs that received temporary increases during or after the recession — like the payroll tax holiday, or extended unemployment benefits — advocates have been fighting to push expiration off longer.
And while neither the changes nor the fiscal benefits would take effect soon, a compromise would send a reassuring signal to markets and to foreign investors who worry about the nation's huge looming liabilities for promised social benefits, advocates said.
These benefits, advocates say, provide a 5-year payback in most cases.
Immigrants living in the country illegally would not be eligible for federal relocation benefits, advocates said.
They questioned claimed project benefits and advocated trading federal Westway dollars for mass transit improvements.
And from City Hall he often defended illegal immigrants, ordering city workers not to deny them benefits and advocating measures to ease their path to citizenship.
One of the benefits of advocating for changes in the healthcare system to accommodate the extremely high prices of gene therapies is that it is a long game, one that won't impact Novartis' products in the short term.
Chan et al. ([2012]) present a comprehensive typology of value dimensions, connected to a set of ecosystem services and benefits, and advocate a multi-method approach to better match the diversity of values linked to the interplay of ecosystems and societies.
