In poor area of Tunis, hopes for better times ahead
Tunis, Tunisia Reuters As day breaks over Tunis, Jamila Ghuili takes her two small children out into the streets to scavenge in waste bins for plastic bottles that she sells to buy food for her family. Abandoned by her husband, the single mother lives in a poor part of Omrane Superieur, a neighbourhood of the […]
Postcards: “Times are changing” – Spain’s Roma renew fight for rights
LAURA MANNERING, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports…
Cash in hand: Could basic income protect livelihoods in coronavirus crisis?
London, UKThomson Reuters Foundation Once a radical idea on the fringes of mainstream economics, handing out cash to citizens has been mooted in the United States and Britain as a way to protect vulnerable peoples’ livelihoods as the coronavirus crisis accelerates. Universal Basic Income involves giving citizens cash payments each month to spend however they […]