While the gap between the wealthy and everyone else is widening in much of the industrialized world, a large chunk of Danes remain firmly middle class. Forty-two percent of the working population of 4.6 million have annual disposable incomes between 200,000 and 400,000 kroner $36,700-$73,300. Just 2.6 percent earn more than 500,000 kroner a year … Continue reading
The deal doesn’t include any explicit cuts to the social insurance or safety net programs that are dear to Democrats’ hearts. But somehow the party of Franklin Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson forgot that spending has to be paid for. The ability of the federal government to protect its citizens against the risks of old age … Continue reading
Spain’s safety net frays as care workers go unpaid | Reuters Reteurs: Mercedes Garcia, the director of a residency for severely mentally disabled adults, has a crisis in her kitchen. Two caterers have been supplying and preparing food for the centre’s 46 patients for free for almost a year; the other 18 recently decided they’d had … Continue reading