When droughts in Ethiopia caused food shortages and famine in 2011, the country expanded its Productive Safety Net program from 6.5 million people to 9 million in just two months, and extended benefits from six to nine months.
The study teams, including FWs, knew that they could not extend benefits without proper guidance from the research centre (through the community engagement advice team, or CAST), and from the national KEMRI ERC committee.
That would cut $6 billion from the roughly $40 billion it would cost to extend benefits through November.
The increasing CDR means the absolute benefit from baseline screening increases with age, given the potential life-extending benefit from earlier detection and treatment through delaying or preventing advanced disease.
The extended benefit data isn't seasonally adjusted and is volatile from week to week.
Still, conservatives contend that extending benefits pulls money from other parts of the economy, discourages people from finding work and increases the unemployment rate.
That may be true, but that hasn't stopped the State Department from extending benefits to same-sex couples within its department.
It's true: Several members of Congress believe extended benefits discourage the jobless from seeking work, and Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) introduced legislation to require drug testing of benefits recipients.
Mobil Oil had polices protecting gay and lesbian employees from discrimination, and extended benefits to same-sex couples.
The bill also disqualifies 170,000 unemployed people — 39 percent of the 438,000 jobless — from federal emergency extended benefits because it reduces the number of weeks people can receive benefits to below 26.
