Spain is located in the south-western part of Europe taking just more than four-fifths of the Iberian peninsula. Spain also includes the Balearic Islands in the Mediterranean Sea, the Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean and some area in Morocco. It is located between both Portugal and France. Spain...
For the first time since 1992, fewer than three million Germans are unemployed. ... Population growth migration is causing tension with the country's welfare system; complications occurring. ... With Germany's population shrinking and aging, which is one reason their pension system is already running into problems. ...
It was Canada's first universal welfare program and was used until 1992. ... The national minimum should embrace useful employment for all who are willing to work; standards of nutrition and housing, adequate to ensure the health of the whole population; social insurance against privation resulting from unemployment, from accident, from death of the bread-winner, from ill health and from old age. ...
Because the poverty population is disproportionately concentrated in big cities, the cities are obligated to spend more of their own fiscal resources per resident to combat poverty as compared to smaller cities, especially most suburbs with a lower percentage of poor residents. ... In 1992, the average yearly AFDC payment was $4,572, and food stamps for a family of three averaged $2,469, a total of $7,041. ...
One day as I was driving to my sister's house in Ravenswood, I saw an elderly man standing at the end of the off-ramp. The gentleman was holding a sign that read: "Homeless will work for food. God Bless."" As I rolled to a stop, I rolled down my window and offered him my last five dollars. To m...
