ansa.int (24.09.2015) 'Age central factor' to closing gender gap says INPS chief

Sputniknews (09.09.2015) Almost 50 million EU residents live without enough money even to heat their homes, Oxfam reported, citing bending the rules by wealthy elites among the reasons.

The Guardian (07.09.2015) Single parents on low incomes face declining living standards over the next five years even if they work full time, as benefits cuts announced in the budget more than offset the introduction of George Osborne’s “national living wage”, according to new research.

The Daily Star (31.08.2015) The honourable Prime Minster Sheikh Hasina has promised to eradicate extreme poverty by 2021 and has made remarkable progress towards this goal. Over the past five years, an estimated 10 million people have made the catalytic leap out of extreme poverty and onto the first rung of the economic ladder. This has been possible because our government has recognized the extreme poor as a group very different from the poor, a group with different needs.

abidjan.net (29.08.2015) Le directeur général de la Caisse nationale de prévoyance sociale (CNPS), Charles Kouassi, estime que sa structure joue un rôle central dans la lutte contre la pauvreté car "l’extension de la protection sociale va constituer un élément fort" dans cette bataille que mène le gouvernement.

Brookings Institution (30.06.2015) India today is already richer than Germany was when it introduced social insurance for all workers in the late 1880s. Indonesia is richer than the United States was in 1935, when the Social Security Act was passed. And China is richer than Britain was in 1948, when the National Health Service was introduced. So what can we learn from comparing developing countries today to richer countries when those countries were at equivalent levels of economic development?

El País (03.08.2015) Los que llevan más tiempo en paro todavía no se benefician de la recuperación económica. Según la encuesta de población activa (EPA), hay 1,2 millones de trabajadores que no han tenido empleo alguno en los últimos cuatro años o más.

CNN (16.07.2015) The Greek pension system is messy, convoluted and downright weird, giving preferential treatment to some workers like hairdressers, sausage makers and policemen, while penalizing farmers.

EurActiv (27.07.2015) Spain's unemployment rate fell sharply to 22.7% in the second quarter, official data showed Thursday, as the Spanish government boasted of creating hundreds of thousands of jobs ahead of an election.

Courrier International (12.07.2015) Le nouveau gouvernement conservateur poursuit l’austérité qui touchera notamment les crédits d’impôts destinés aux faibles revenus. Une mesure qui, selon les critiques, frappe de façon disproportionnée les familles pauvres.