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🧮 Market-based schemes not reducing deforestation, poverty: Report
#deforestation

Market-based schemes not reducing deforestation, poverty: Report
Market-based approaches to forest conservation like carbon offsets and deforestation-free certification schemes have largely failed to protect trees or alleviate poverty, according to a major scientific review published on Monday.

NO IRISH NEED APPLY
Written and sung by MIss KATHLEEN O'NEIL.
WANTED.- A smart active girl to do the general housework of a large family
One who can cook, clean plates, and get up fine linen, preferred.
N. B.-No Irish need apply.
London Times Newspaper, Feb. 1862.
I'm a simple Irish girl, and I'm looking for a place,
I've felt the grip of poverty, but sure that's no disgrace,
For read in each advertisement "No Irish ne…

This is genuinely an important question, the open web is certainly worth saving, and I for one do think about how every task I take on might contribute to or reverse those problems. I assume we need more compassionate people at big corps, not less.
The problems no amount of compassion seem to be able to assuage include the way the entire system is corrupt and the way all our taxes are used to support an empire that turns a blind eye to poverty and supports genocide.

The rise of right-wing extremism fosters excessive nationalism, economic decline, the undermining of democracy, resulting in fear, autocracy and poverty. It's a tragedy.
As Europe’s power shrinks, its fear is growing – and the result is huge mistakes ht…

Many Patients Don't Survive End-Stage Poverty (Lindsay Ryan/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/11/opinion/doctor-safety-net-hospital.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/240411/p71#a240411p71

Full article, no paywall:
The Calls for Help Coming From Above the Poverty Line - WSJ
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/poverty-america-low-income-emergency-services-d309a7a6?st=mlhykk4…

👉🏽 Archaeologists Are Organizing to Dig Out of Poverty Wages
#labor

Archaeologists Are Organizing to Dig Out of Poverty Wages
Field archaeologists work physically demanding jobs exposed to the elements, often for low pay and meager benefits from private employers. We spoke to one self-identified “dirty shovel bum” about why he and his coworkers are organizing.

Climate Immobility Traps: A Household-Level Test
Marco Letta, Pierluigi Montalbano, Adriana Paolantonio
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.09470 https://

Climate Immobility Traps: A Household-Level Test
The complex relationship between climate shocks, migration, and adaptation hampers a rigorous understanding of the heterogeneous mobility outcomes of farm households exposed to climate risk. To unpack this heterogeneity, the analysis combines longitudinal multi-topic household survey data from Nigeria with a causal machine learning approach, tailored to a conceptual framework bridging economic migration theory and the poverty traps literature. The results show that pre-shock asset levels, in si…

Poverty Rate in India Drops Below 5% First Time Ever as Rural-Urban Divide Shrinks https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/poverty-rate-in-india-drops-below-5-first-time-ever-as-rural-urban-divide-shrinks/

Poverty Rate in India Drops Below 5% First Time Ever as Rural-Urban Divide Shrinks
While India contains several of the world's largest cities, there are still 1.8 rural Indians for every 1 urbanite.

Disconnected Democracy: Mapping internet access, poverty and voter suppression
https://thedemlabs.org/2024/04/30/affordable-internet-access-mapped-with-poverty-voter-suppression/

Disconnected Democracy
There's a connection between poverty, internet access and voter suppression

disability benefits rant
"Work is the best path to long-term financial security" says someone at the DWP.
Not if you can't work it isn't!
Glib, callous invisibilising of long-term conditions. How are these people in charge of anything.
#disability #benefits #UK #austerity #poverty

"Poverty and political, social, and economic inequalities between groups predispose to conflict; policies to tackle them will reduce this risk."
Observe that poverty and political, social, and economic inequalities are the belief and aim of Conservativism. Rightwing extremism is the cause of war and blaming victims and others will only make things worse.
Vote for Democracy!

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1122271/

Russian Defectors Fighting for Ukraine Are Invading Their Motherland
https://www.businessinsider.com/russian-defectors-fighting-for-ukraine-are-invading-their-motherland-2024-3

Russian defectors fighting for Ukraine are invading their motherland
"We are not coming to kill, erase, or punish. We come to live, to liberate you from poverty," said the Freedom of Russia Legion, a paramilitary group.

Climate Immobility Traps: A Household-Level Test
Marco Letta, Pierluigi Montalbano, Adriana Paolantonio
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.09470 https://

Climate Immobility Traps: A Household-Level Test
The complex relationship between climate shocks, migration, and adaptation hampers a rigorous understanding of the heterogeneous mobility outcomes of farm households exposed to climate risk. To unpack this heterogeneity, the analysis combines longitudinal multi-topic household survey data from Nigeria with a causal machine learning approach, tailored to a conceptual framework bridging economic migration theory and the poverty traps literature. The results show that pre-shock asset levels, in si…

1 in 4 New York City Children Now Lives in Poverty - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/21/nyregion/nyc-poverty.html

1 in 4 New York City Children Now Lives in Poverty
Poverty has soared in the city with the ending of pandemic era aid, and children have borne the brunt of the hardship, a report from a research group found.

I see Fintan O'Toole is struggling, as I am, with the poverty of the Green Ballot Care referendum's aims and the process of its creation.
#YesYes #YesNo
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2024/03/05/fintan-otoole-if-the-care-referendum-is-such-a-progressive-change-why-has-the-process-been-such-a-travesty/?

As is the case with every single social, political and climate-related issue, marginalisation and poverty play a significant role in how much an individual person can realistically do https://nowthenmagazine.com/articles/from-…

From “who should?” to “who could?”: Navigating the messy problem of food waste
How do we move away from guilt-inducing moral superiority to actually solving the problem?

Head Start preschools aim to fight poverty, but their teachers struggle to make ends meet | Financial Post
https://financialpost.com/pmn/business-pmn/head-start-preschools-aim-to-fight-poverty-but-…

"Poverty is trauma" https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2024/mar/01/uk-cost-of-living-crisis-tipton-south-shields-bristol-photo-essay

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.09098 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arX…

Growth, Poverty Trap and Escape
The well-known Solow growth model is the workhorse model of the theory of economic growth, which studies capital accumulation in a model economy as a function of time with capital stock, labour and technology efficiency as the basic ingredients. The capital is assumed to be in the form of manufacturing equipments and materials. Two important parameters of the model are: the saving fraction $s$ of the output of a production function and the technology efficiency parameter $A$, appearing in the p…

Why the Russian bear wants to influence the Asian tiger In 2022, according to official data, 15.3 million Russians lived below the poverty line, which was equal to the population of two European count Source : https://uacrisis.org/en/chomu-rosijskyj-vedm…

Staggering statistics from the land of my birth😒
"Real wages are lower than they were 15 yrs ago. ⇓ British children are growing up in poverty, with millions skipping meals every week. Britain is not only significantly poorer than France, let alone Germany or Denmark.... more than 7 million Brits live in what government calls "food insecurity". 12 million in relative poverty, at least 3 million use food banks. In 2010, the figure was 60,000"
Who killed Great Britain?
🎁
https://www.information.dk/udland/2024/04/hvem-slog-storbritannien-ihjel?kupon=eyJpYXQiOjE3MTM1MjQ5MzUsInN1YiI6IjIyMjUyMDo4MTkwMzUifQ.9_7QOpyn65Fg3-8EP-Enfg

Cowboys News: Elliott contract shows minimal investment, Micah Parsons tries sumo wrestling https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/lists/cowboys-news-notes-may-5-2024-ezekiel-elliott-micah-parsons/

Cowboys News: Elliott contract shows minimal investment, Micah Parsons tries sumo wrestling
From @ToddBrock24f7: The Cowboys basically gave Zeke a veteran minimum deal, a former Cowboy tackles food poverty in Fort Worth, Micah tries sumo in Japan.

🔥Tomorrow, this vital program will abruptly end. 🔥
On November 21, 2021, President Biden signed the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.
The new law included the ☀️Affordable Connectivity Program☀️ (ACP), which provided up to $30 per month to individuals or families with income up to 200% of the federal poverty line to help pay for high-speed internet.
(For a family of four, the poverty line is currently $31,200.)
On Tribal lands, where internet access…

Why millions of Americans may lose internet access tomorrow
In 2024, reliable access to high-speed internet is no longer a luxury; it is a basic necessity. From job applications to managing personal finances and completing school work, internet access is an essential part of daily life. Without an internet connection, individuals are effectively cut off from basic societal activities.

"We are at a pivotal moment in human history. #ArtificialIntelligence is transforming industries ranging from manufacturing to finance to transportation to the arts, automating jobs once thought impossible to replicate.
Banning policy experiments limits data-driven discussions on responses to poverty & job loss.

If the Republican Party bans the UBI, what the fuck is their plan? — Joan Westenberg
Business Insider: Republican lawmakers in Arizona are joining a chorus of conservatives across the country trying to ban basic income programs, which offer residents no-strings-attached payments. Arizona state lawmakers introduced a bill that would ban any municipality or county from making paym

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.11119 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_sta…

Measurement and comparison of distributional shift and its relation to rarity, poverty, and scarcity
The comparison of frequency distributions is a common statistical task with broad applications. However, existing measures do not explicitly quantify the magnitude and direction by which one distribution is shifted relative to another. In the present study, we define distributional shift (DS) as the concentration of frequencies towards the lowest discrete class, e.g., the left-most bin of a histogram. We measure DS via the sum of cumulative frequencies and define relative distributional shift (…

Most EU voters evidently have more sensible priorities than the megaphone-wielding populists who aim to dominate politics. High time that media draw attention to those sensible priorities.
Poverty is bigger issue for voters than migration, survey shows h…

👍 Civil rights org puts Libs of TikTok's Chaya Raichik on extremist list
https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/03/30/southern-poverty-law-center-chaya-raichik-libs-of-tiktok/

Libs of TikTok founder Chaya Raichik added to hate watchlist as an ‘anti-LGBTQ+ extremist’
The Southern Poverty Law Center has added Libs of TikTok founder Chaya Raichik to their hate watchlist as an 'anti-LGBTQ+ extremist.

Kremlin Spends Trillions on the Military While Regular Russians Suffer from Poverty: https://benborges.xyz/2024/02/18/kremlin-spends-trillions.html

Women #mining for emeralds in Colombia | AP News
https://apnews.com/article/colombia-emeralds-women-mining-fc7e1503049bad3815d75fdf80099f52

Women blast through gender barriers in Colombia's emerald mines, but struggle to emerge from poverty
Deep inside mountain tunnels in Colombia where the heat is so intense it causes headaches, women with power tools are chipping away at boulders in search of gems. They have opened a difficult path for themselves in the emerald industry, a sector long dominated by men. Some once believed that if women worked in the mines, the emeralds would hide. Now female miners are pushing for the government to officially recognize them and to legalize a small number of women-owned mines. The work is hard, an…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.11920 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCY_…

Bangladesh Agricultural Knowledge Graph: Enabling Semantic Integration and Data-driven Analysis--Full Version
In Bangladesh, agriculture is a crucial driver for addressing Sustainable Development Goal 1 (No Poverty) and 2 (Zero Hunger), playing a fundamental role in the economy and people's livelihoods. To enhance the sustainability and resilience of the agriculture industry through data-driven insights, the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics and other organizations consistently collect and publish agricultural data on the Web. Nevertheless, the current datasets encounter various challenges: 1) they are p…

Impacto Distributivo Potencial de Reformas na Tributacao Indireta no Brasil: Simulacoes Baseadas na PEC 45/2019
Rozane Bezerra dde Siqueira, Jose Ricardo Bezerra Nogueira, Carlos Feitosa Luna
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.07651

Impacto Distributivo Potencial de Reformas na Tributacao Indireta no Brasil: Simulacoes Baseadas na PEC 45/2019
This paper analyzes the redistributive impacts of indirect taxation reforms in Brazil inspired by PEC 45/2019, particularly in the version that led to EC 132/2023. Comparisons are made between the current system and the simulated reforms, considering the distribution of the tax burden among families in different income classes, as well as the impact on poverty and inequality indicators. The simulations are conducted based on the combination of effective tax rates that apply to goods and service…

🔊 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio2's #TheFolkShowWithMarkRadcliffe
The Mary Wallopers:
🎵 Rakes of Poverty (6 Music Session, 17th March 2024)
#TheMaryWallopers
https://open.spotify.com/track/2WtKiGOuaQlMUs3pOBHpad

Women #mining for emeralds in Colombia | AP News
https://apnews.com/article/colombia-emeralds-women-mining-fc7e1503049bad3815d75fdf80099f52

Women blast through gender barriers in Colombia's emerald mines, but struggle to emerge from poverty
Deep inside mountain tunnels in Colombia where the heat is so intense it causes headaches, women with power tools are chipping away at boulders in search of gems. They have opened a difficult path for themselves in the emerald industry, a sector long dominated by men. Some once believed that if women worked in the mines, the emeralds would hide. Now female miners are pushing for the government to officially recognize them and to legalize a small number of women-owned mines. The work is hard, an…

Bangladesh Agricultural Knowledge Graph: Enabling Semantic Integration and Data-driven Analysis--Full Version
Rudra Pratap Deb Nath, Tithi Rani Das, Tonmoy Chandro Das, S. M. Shafkat Raihan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.11920

Bangladesh Agricultural Knowledge Graph: Enabling Semantic Integration and Data-driven Analysis--Full Version
In Bangladesh, agriculture is a crucial driver for addressing Sustainable Development Goal 1 (No Poverty) and 2 (Zero Hunger), playing a fundamental role in the economy and people's livelihoods. To enhance the sustainability and resilience of the agriculture industry through data-driven insights, the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics and other organizations consistently collect and publish agricultural data on the Web. Nevertheless, the current datasets encounter various challenges: 1) they are p…

Navigating simplicity and complexity of social-ecological systems through a dialog between dynamical systems and agent-based models
Sonja Radosavljevic, Udita Sanga, Maja Schl\"uter
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.12086

Navigating simplicity and complexity of social-ecological systems through a dialog between dynamical systems and agent-based models
Social-ecological systems (SES) research aims to understand the nature of social-ecological phenomena, to find effective ways to foster or manage conditions under which desirable phenomena, such as sustainable resource use, occur or to change conditions or reduce the negative consequences of undesirable phenomena, such as poverty traps. Challenges such as these are often addressed using dynamical systems models (DSM) or agent-based models (ABM). Both modeling approaches have strengths and weakn…

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #CerysMatthews
The Mary Wallopers:
🎵 Rakes of Poverty (6 Music Session, 17th March 2024)
#TheMaryWallopers
https://open.spotify.com/track/2WtKiGOuaQlMUs3pOBHpad

The Gerber-Shiu Expected Discounted Penalty Function: An Application to Poverty Trapping
Jos\'e Miguel Flores-Contr\'o
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.11715

The Gerber-Shiu Expected Discounted Penalty Function: An Application to Poverty Trapping
In this article, we consider a risk process with deterministic growth and prorated losses to model the capital of a household. Our work focuses on the analysis of the trapping time of such a process, where trapping occurs when a household's capital level falls into the poverty area, a region from which it is difficult to escape without external help. A function analogous to the classical Gerber-Shiu expected discounted penalty function is introduced, which incorporates information on the trappi…