At last year’s Oscars ceremony, a number of celebrities, including Billie Eilish, Ramy Youssef and Mark Ruffalo, wore the red-hand pin provided by an organization called Artists4Ceasefire.

At last year's Oscars ceremony, a number of celebrities, including Billie Eilish, Ramy Youssef and Mark Ruffalo, wore the red-hand pin provided by an organization called Artists4Ceasefire.

Labour was the party that created the welfare state. Now it is intent on cutting it back. And in Liz Kendall, the government has found a Labour work and pensions secretary clearly entirely ...

The welfare state will be there for those who need it "now and for years to come", the work and pensions secretary has said - as the government faces pressure from its own MPs over benefit changes.

Services and staffing levels of social welfare organisations in Hong Kong will be hit by the government plan to cut funding by as much as 7 percent in the coming three financial years, lawmakers ...

Nearly 5.4 million people in Germany receive Bürgergeld — social benefit payments that cover a wide range of needs, from the unemployed to the working poor to adults with disabilities.

Chancellor Rachel Reeves has earmarked "several billion pounds" in draft spending cuts to welfare ahead of her Spring Statement, according to the BBC. When asked about the welfare budget, the ...

A former cabinet minister and Welsh MP who carried out reform of disability benefits under the last Labour government has spoken of the need to create an "opportunity" rather than a "punitive ...

LONDON — Keir Starmer is betting that hefty cuts to Britain’s welfare bill won’t alienate his party — or turn off voters. Now to put that theory to the test. After weeks of behind-the-scenes wrangling ...

LONDON, March 18 (Reuters) - Britain's Labour government announced plans on Tuesday to cut more than five billion pounds ($6.48 billion) from its welfare budget by 2029/30, seeking to tame a ...

The chancellor has earmarked several billion pounds in draft spending cuts to welfare and other government departments ahead of the Spring Statement. The Treasury will put the proposed cuts to the ...

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