Vulnerability to crime is not equal: The more affluent can afford to seclude themselves by hiring private security, living in safer areas and investing in protecting their living spaces.
One veteran Finnish commentator sums it up crisply: "We live today in idyllic circumstances in terms of security, living standards and domestic politics; in a way it is unbelievable".
Until now, if wages rose above that amount -- what is considered the federal poverty-level income for Connecticut -- Medicaid coverage and Social Security living cost payments usually stopped in a few months.
(And why is anybody on Social Security "living on the edge of subsistence"?).
Politicians here like to talk about border security, but they refuse to acknowledge the demands of human security: living wages, a society of laws, schools, housing, healthcare.
The report also mentioned that most of those living below US$0.500 per day were from the informal labour sector with no job or social security, living in abject poverty (22).
In their high-security lives, the only fear they have of an attack on a bus is that the waiters will be late for a drinks reception.
Hanan, whose last name has been withheld for security reasons, lives with her three children in Damascus.
He added: "The threat to security of lives and property as a result of the criminal activities of the Boko Haram insurgents is everywhere".
Because of the post communal riots (2001), Muslims from Navrangpura, Paldi, were moving to Juhapura in the sense of security, as lives were lost elsewhere in the city.
How, then, do workers perceive threats upon their dignity, careers, economic security, and lives?
