Study of long-term temporary assistance recipients released: Recipients: Strong work ethic, many are working, work often not sufficient for family to reach self-sufficiency

2002 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Work Ethic ◽  
Self Sufficiency ◽  
Temporary Assistance

scholarly journals Food Security: Self–Sufficiency of Rice in Malaysia

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fatimah Mohamed Arshad ◽  
Emmy Farha Alias ◽  
Kusairi Mohd Noh ◽  
Muhammad Tasrif
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
System Dynamics ◽  
Policy Instruments ◽  
Rice Production ◽  
Dynamics Model ◽  
Self Sufficiency ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Optimum Productivity ◽  
The Government

Malaysia’s stance on food security is largely translated in terms of achieving self-sufficiency in rice production at about 65-70% of the local consumption. Since Malaysia does not have the comparative advantage in rice production, it implements a wide range of market interventions to achieve the intended level of rice production. The policy instruments include among others: guaranteed minimum price for paddy, price control, price and input subsidies and import monopoly. These interventionist instruments may not be sustainable in the long-term as they incur a high budgetary burden to the government, misallocation of resources and liberalization demand from WTO. The industry faces challenges in terms of land competition for urbanization and industrial uses and declining soil fertility due to heavy use of chemical fertilizer. This paper examines the influence of the fertilizer and the cash subsidies, as well as land conversion and fertility on the level of self-sufficiency in rice. A system dynamics model is applied to analyse the causal and feedback relationships of these variables in the paddy production system framework. The study shows that Malaysia may not be able to sustain the targeted self-sufficiency level without adequate R&D to address the production constraints particularly below-optimum productivity and the threats of climate change. The consumption of rice on the other hand continues to rise due to the increase in population.   Keywords: Paddy and rice, Malaysia, system dynamics, policy analysis.

scholarly journals Critical Appraisal of an Example of Best Practice in Urban Sustainability

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 26-41
Author(s):  
Adaku Jane Echendu
Keyword(s):  
Best Practice ◽  
Universal Design ◽  
Urban Sustainability ◽  
Urban Centers ◽  
High Performing ◽  
Island Effect ◽  
Self Sufficiency ◽  
Urban Heat ◽  
Urban Sustainability Indicators

Urban centers are key to achieving the global goals of sustainability. Urban sustainability entails having thriving cities that fulfill their needs without impacting the long-term sustainability of the ecosystem. Achieving urban sustainability is, therefore, an important goal as sustainable urban centers portend numerous benefits to the ecosystem. This paper critically appraises Singapore as a best practice in Urban Sustainability. It reviews the literature on urban sustainability and discusses the high and low-performing sectors in Singapore. It finds a gap in contemporary urban sustainability metrics whereby most of the globally acclaimed Urban Sustainability Indicators do not measure universal design for inclusivity as an aspect of urban sustainability. This study, therefore, includes it as a measure and appraises it. High-performing areas highlighted in this study comprise education; universal design for inclusivity; transportation; people-centered approach; water and energy management; healthcare, safety and security; and food security. Areas for improvement comprise self-sufficiency in food production, urban heat island effect, and public participation and social welfare. The aim is to serve as a lesson to cities worldwide as they work towards achieving urban sustainability and provide key information to policymakers as they seek to improve the sustainability of their urban environment.

scholarly journals Outsourcing Equality: Migrant Care Worker Imaginary in Finnish Media

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Camilla Nordberg
Keyword(s):  
Media Discourse ◽  
Term Contract ◽  
Self Sufficiency ◽  
Cultural Imaginary ◽  
Care Workers ◽  
The Media ◽  
The One ◽  
Care Worker ◽  
Regional Authorities

Implications from the restructuring of Nordic eldercare include the incorporation of new categories of care workers and a redefinition of the terms of citizenship and participation in working life. Drawing on the idea that policy actors script care worker subjectivities, this article examines print media as a key arena where the cultural imaginary of care work is played out. The media has the potential to accommodate ideological complexity through the possible range of participatory actors. From the scripts promoted through the mediascape, we can learn about the positions understood as being (in)appropriate for migrant care workers. This study draws on the analysis of news and feature stories from 2003 to 2013 in the largest Finnish daily, Helsingin Sanomat, and in the periodical Kuntalehti, published by the Finnish Association of Local and Regional Authorities. The article points to tensions in Finnish media discourse, identifying ambiguous occupational scripts for migrant care workers—rooted in neoliberal repertoires of self-sufficiency and normative individualism on the one hand and helplessness and naivety on the other hand. It draws attention to an unsettling construction whereby migrant care workers are excluded from a long-term contract with the Finnish care labor market, and where social equality is conditioned to global redistribution.

scholarly journals An Econometric Analysis of the Effects of the Job Training Partnership Act on Self-Sufficiency

2021 ◽  
pp. 66-74
Author(s):  
Jorge N. Zumaeta
Keyword(s):  
Work Experience ◽  
Reading Ability ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Job Training ◽  
Food Stamps ◽  
Job Placement ◽  
Successful Completion ◽  
Job Training Partnership Act ◽  
Self Sufficiency

The primary purpose of the study is to investigate the likelihood of a Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) participant getting a job placement after receiving training, and to identifying the factors that affect the attainment of self-sufficiency (Bloom and Charles, 2001; Friedlander, 1988; Gueron and Edward, 1991). Additionally, the research study focuses on learning more about the determinants of the wage rate at the time when a participant gets a placement. This study has found that successful completion of training combined with prior work experience are the most important factors that affect the chance of getting a job placement. This finding is consistent with Eberts (2002) and Schexnayder et al. (1991). Furthermore, the results show that the most significant variables affecting self-sufficiency are (1) completion of long-term training and (2) reading ability. An additional finding of the study is that if the participant is a recipient of food stamps, then his/her probability of achieving self-sufficiency decreases. Our study’s main contribution is the identification of significant variables to be included in the development of workforce policies aiming at promoting economic self-sufficiency and mitigating poverty in Florida.

scholarly journals Countywide Evaluation of the Long-Term Family Self-Sufficiency Plan: Establishing the Baselines

2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Schoeni ◽  
Jeanne Ringel ◽  
John Hedderson ◽  
Paul Steinberg ◽  
Laura Hickman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Self Sufficiency

scholarly journals Dignity and Predictors of Its Change Among Inpatients in Long-Term Care

2021 ◽  
pp. 105477382110369
Author(s):  
Helena Kisvetrová ◽  
Jitka Tomanová ◽  
Romana Hanáčková ◽  
Peta Jane Greaves ◽  
Alison Steven
Keyword(s):  
Daily Living ◽  
Long Term Care ◽  
Geriatric Depression Scale ◽  
Depression Scale ◽  
Term Care ◽  
Self Sufficiency ◽  
State Examination ◽  
Geriatric Inpatients

The purpose of this study was to identify any differences in the dignity evaluation of geriatric inpatients after 1 month of hospitalization in a long-term care wards (LTC) and predictors of this change. This follow-up study included 125 geriatric inpatients who filled the Patient Dignity Inventory (PDI-CZ), Geriatric Depression Scale, Barthel Index, and Mini-Mental State Examination. In the initial measurement, the patients rated of PDI-CZ item “Not able to perform tasks of daily living” the worst. One month after, the items “Not able to perform tasks of daily living,” “Not able to attend to bodily functions,” and “Not feeling worthwhile or valued” were improved. Patients with higher education, for whom self-sufficiency improved and depression decreased, rated their dignity more positively 1 month after the hospitalization in LTC. Our findings suggest that these factors are important for the maintenance of the dignity of older adults hospitalized in LTC.

scholarly journals Welfare transformations and expectations of sameness. Living on the margins in Denmark.

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 66-84
Author(s):  
Camilla Merrild ◽  
Rikke Sand Andersen
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Social Security ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
Work Ethic ◽  
Individual Responsibility ◽  
Socially Disadvantaged ◽  
Original Intention ◽  
The Welfare State

In Denmark, as in other welfare societies worldwide, the organisation and ideology of welfare are becoming increasingly influenced by neoliberal ideas. In practice, this means that the original intention behind the provision of social support, which was grounded in the notion of social responsibility, is gradually being pushed aside by notions of responsibilisation, with concepts such as deservingness and work ethic appearing to dominate the discourse. Based on long-term fieldwork and interviews conducted with socially disadvantaged Danes living on social security, this article engages with the current debates regarding responsibility and highlights some of the challenges arising from living a life that diverges from what has been termed Danish ‘in-between middle-classness’. We argue that the divergence between the promise of welfare, the current landscape of political regulation and expectations of individual responsibility leads to new forms of uncertainty, as experienced by those who depend on the services provided by the welfare state. One implication of this is that welfare seems to increasingly be tied to an agenda of sameness, whereby citizenship stems less from a imagination of sameness than from an expectation of sameness.

An Enquiry into the Production Pattern of Select Maharatnas (SAIL, CIL, ONGC and NTPC): Post-2000

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vijaya Priya ◽  
K. K. Seethamma
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Balance Of Payments ◽  
Leadership Positions ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
Self Sufficiency ◽  
Production Pattern ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Under Construction

Public sector enterprises have been set up to serve the broad macro-economic objectives of higher economic growth, self-sufficiency in production of goods and services, long term equilibrium in balance of payments and low and stable prices. Many of the CPSEs are also in the allocative business of natural resources. As on 31.3.2014 there were 290 Central Public Sector Enterprises consisting of 234 operating CPSEs and 56 CPSEs under construction. The turnover of all 234 operating CPSEs during 2013-14 stood at 20,61,866 crores as compared to 19,45,814 crores of 230 operating CPSEs in the previous year. Indian PSUs have developed a formidable franchise, with leadership positions in sectors like Oil and Gas, Financials, Utilities, Mining and Heavy Engineering controlling 60% - 90% market share. Over the years, they have played a significant role in the growth of the Indian economy – therefore their production pattern has been analysed using Basic Control Chart.

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