The new, emerging Republican consensus regarding entitlement reform and social safety nets reflects precisely that.
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The third response has been to introduce job-creation programmes and to plan social safety nets.
Because of the social safety nets in place, relatively few people over 64 are very poor (9%).
Note that even Hayek, the intellectual godfather of modern libertarians, supported the concept of basic social safety nets.
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Parents of the post-war generation are probably going to be fine, having social safety nets like defined-benefit pensions, Social Security and Medicare.
And these countries have little in the way of social safety nets.
The U.K., along with every rich nation, must reign in these excesses until their social safety nets protect the truly poor, but no one else.
Other developed countries have a very different arrangement, with significantly higher tax individual tax rates and stronger social safety nets, and significantly lower charitable-contribution rates.
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Euro-style social safety nets encourage Euro-style long term or structural unemployment.
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In America, which has one of the lowest social safety nets in the rich world, extending unemployment benefits was, rightly, part of the recent stimulus package.
Social safety nets are much better developed than they were in the 1930s, which may make the poor less desperate and constrain their anger at the rich.
Relief from such pains will not come until the government has put in place social safety nets such as unemployment insurance as well as a job retraining scheme.
From bank rescues and market forays to currency curbs and social safety nets, official involvement in economic activity is reaching levels not seen for at least a decade.
The implementation of key structural reforms is critical to strengthening growth and creating jobs, and promoting global rebalancing, such as policies that affect social safety nets and investment patterns.
This explains why singlehood proliferates in places where such networks can crystallise, he says: in many urban centres and in Scandinavia, where strong social safety nets free people to pursue their own goals.
In Ireland and Greece, two of the hardest-hit economies in Europe, suicides increased by 13 and 17 percent, respectively, while in Finland and Austria, countries with strong social safety nets, the rates either climbed little or not at all.
The debate is now more clearly between two competing visions for social safety nets ensuring that essential needs for food, clothing, housing and health care are satisfied, and which vision is better both for those served by these programs, and the taxpayers.
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We are especially mindful of the social and other costs that this process implies and, as a result, an important focus of our programs and those of the World Bank has been on using fiscal and other instruments to bolster social safety nets.
Add to that the enormous spending needed to provide social safety-nets and boost domestic demand.
Since the region's social safety-nets are still full of holes, another recession might strain political harmony.
It is not surprising that the summit did little about biofuels, export bans or social-safety nets (which it hardly discussed).
In Latvia, though, it is international lenders who warn Latvia against too much austerity, and against hastily removing emergency social safety-nets.
In China this means a stronger currency, bigger social safety-nets and an overhaul of subsidies to increase the share of national income going to workers.
Social services and state safety nets in the U.S. are more elaborate and sophisticated than they are in Brazil.
Have the emotional safety nets in our communities become so frayed we need online social networks to fill in the gaps?
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