Science news articles about 'welfare cuts'

... Osborne today announced an extra £7bn of welfare cuts, allowing him to turn the tables ... /15 while putting public services and the welfare system "on a sustainable, long-term footing".The chancellor outlined a series of complex new welfare reforms to make the extra savings, as he ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Radical cuts in social welfare spending by governments intent on reducing budget deficits can cost lives as well as cause economic pain, according to a study published on Friday.

(Phys.org) -- Slashing government funding for Medicaid, food stamps and other programs that serve the poor – while politically popular with some lawmakers and many conservatives – may do more harm ...

... secretary, so raising the prospect of a battle as the Treasury demands a second round of big welfare cuts next year to bring the deficit-reduction programme back under control.Heavy ...

Quebec's 17 public health directors say proposed cuts to provincial welfare payments will have negative health effects on thousands of adults and children, by forcing them further into poverty.