Around 76% of young people in Japan saw an increase in their monthly food spending compared with last year amid ongoing inflation, a survey by a nonprofit organization has found. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/27/japan/society/youth-rising-food-costs/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #society #food #inflation #poverty #hunger
As prices keep rising, 98% of struggling families with children in Japan said they have been suffering economic hardship since the COVID-19 pandemic, a survey by nonprofit organization Kidsdoor shows. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/23/japan/society/hardship-families-pandemic-survey/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #society #covid19injapan #poverty #children #surveys #christmas #newyear
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Guaranteed Basic Income Program In Rochester NY Deemed A Success | Crooks and Liars
https://crooksandliars.com/2025/12/guaranteed-basic-income-program-rochester
RE: https://stranger.social/@lednaBM/115718877275566120
It's weird how every time someone runs a UBI or GBI test like this, it always turns out positive. Like, I *never* see headlines saying "UBI Trial in Bumfucksburg, West Idaho Fails to Achieve Goals".
They always work, never fail.
It's almost like they're a good idea and we should move past the "trial" stage, hmm? 🤔
#UBI #UniversalBasicIncome #BasicUniversalIncome #GuaranteedBasicIncome #poverty
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Modern capitalism. Cartoon from 2024.
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Wave of Tax Cuts Has Left Many States Vulnerable to Trump SNAP and Medicaid Crisis
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The recent government shutdown, with families skipping meals and babies unfed, could have been a preview of what’s to come when Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill shifts billions in costs for the SNAP program to states that may not be able to afford them.
https://www.propublica.org/article/food-stamps-crisis-snap-big-beautiful-bill-state-tax-cuts?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Trump #SNAP #Medicaid #Poverty #Healthcare #Food #Government #Tax
Guaranteed Basic Income Program In Rochester NY Deemed A Success | Crooks and Liars
https://crooksandliars.com/2025/12/guaranteed-basic-income-program-rochester
RE: https://stranger.social/@lednaBM/115718877275566120
It's weird how every time someone runs a UBI or GBI test like this, it always turns out positive. Like, I *never* see headlines saying "UBI Trial in Bumfucksburg, West Idaho Fails to Achieve Goals".
They always work, never fail.
It's almost like they're a good idea and we should move past the "trial" stage, hmm? 🤔
#UBI #UniversalBasicIncome #BasicUniversalIncome #GuaranteedBasicIncome #poverty
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Please keep reboosting! Urgent! Next clinic visit is up soon, and I need to pay for the labs from the other day.
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December mutual aid:
We're a visibly disabled, biracial, schizophrenic plural system. I'm an artist and a musician and we're streamers as well. Our household, which includes my best friend, is in need of help because our single disability check doesn't cover anything beyond utilities. We need money for Grocery, supplies, life-saving prescriptions, and doctor visits. This is all necessary to stay alive and housed. Beyond that, our washer is dying again and our water heater blew months ago which is... unpleasant, in the winter.
It would be amazing to get this filled before the holidays - that way we might even be able to get some small gifts for loved ones.
https://patreon.com/ifwhen (access to art, music, stream shoutouts)
(Thanks to Tzedek Khoydesh and Patreon, we're up to $90 already!)
Please help if you can, and boost, every single dollar helps us keep going, keeps us alive.
Thank you for reading, and I hope your day is a good one.
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The number of community cafeterias that provide free or low-cost meals mainly to children in need in Japan has reached a record 12,601 this fiscal year, according to a nonprofit organization's survey. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/12/japan/kodomo-shokudo-record/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #food #poverty #socialwelfare #children #surveys
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Tax the billionaires? Without a functional democracy that won't happen.
I recently joined the Democratic Socialists of America and invite you to do the same. Millions of us are deep in #poverty and yet we're not #organizing for our self interest the way that we should be. That's been true for decades. If we want real #democracy we are going to have fight #capitalism directly. We have to #organize in our workplaces and communities.
“We had soiled beds, waiting rooms with holes in the chairs, mounting sepsis issues and had just laid off 200 qualified nurses,” a former Phoebe executive recalled, “but we had a new logo.”
Read Part 3 of our "Sick in a Hospital Town" series:
https://projects.propublica.org/albany-georgia-hospital/part-three/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#Georgia #Hospital #Health #Healthcare #Poverty #COVID #Journalism
These Health Centers Are Supposed to Make Care Affordable. One Has Sued Patients for as Little as $59 in Unpaid Bills.
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Federally funded community health centers receive grants in exchange for serving patients regardless of their ability to pay. But ProPublica found at least five across the country filing lawsuits and garnishing paychecks to collect unpaid bills.
https://www.propublica.org/article/federally-qualified-health-centers-unpaid-bills-lawsuits?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
Wave of Tax Cuts Has Left Many States Vulnerable to Trump SNAP and Medicaid Crisis
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The recent government shutdown, with families skipping meals and babies unfed, could have been a preview of what’s to come when Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill shifts billions in costs for the SNAP program to states that may not be able to afford them.
https://www.propublica.org/article/food-stamps-crisis-snap-big-beautiful-bill-state-tax-cuts?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Trump #SNAP #Medicaid #Poverty #Healthcare #Food #Government #Tax
Modern capitalism. Cartoon from 2024.
"What psychological mechanisms allow us to pour hundreds of billions into artificial intelligence while 600 million people will live in extreme poverty by 2030? The answer lies in the architecture of human decision-making under conditions of abstraction, proximity bias, and manufactured urgency."
#CorneliaCWalther, Ph.D, 2025