King Charles III’s monarchy will not receive a pay raise in 2024-2025. Photo : AP King Charles III’s monarchy will not receive a pay raise in 2024-2025, despite the Sovereign Grant, which funds royal duties and palace upkeep, set to surge by £45 million ($60 million) to £132 million ($170 million) in 2026-2027, according to…
Eight in 10 children from low-income families in Hong Kong suffer from serious nutritional imbalance, with less than 14 per cent getting enough dairy, a survey has found. The People Service Centre on Tuesday released the findings of a four-year study that monitored 426 children, aged three to 11, from underprivileged households, including those living…
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants to make it harder for poor Americans to buy unhealthy food. Together with Agriculture Secretary Brook Rollins, he is asking some fifteen states to submit waivers to bar beneficiaries of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) from using those funds to buy soda and other…
The Trump administration has abruptly laid off the entire staff running a $4.1 billion program to help low-income households across the United States pay their heating and cooling bills. The firings threaten to paralyze the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, which was created by Congress in 1981 and helps to offset high utility bills…
Nolen: The first TB patient that I sat down with in Nairobi was a man who had extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis, or XDR-TB — essentially there’s a just a very slim chance that the only drugs we know about will actually cure him. We’re out of options. And he’d come in that day, like he had…
This is the story of two immensely talented sons of Africa who each migrated to America and thrived. One you’ve heard of: Elon Musk. The other, Valentino Achak Deng, was a “lost boy” from Sudan who survived massacres, lions and crocodiles and moved to Atlanta as a refugee. Musk and Deng have since gone in…
Meet The Columbus Dispatch’s new kindness reporter | Watch We are introducing our new human kindness reporter, Sophia Veneziano, who will be featuring stories of everyday Columbus people doing amazing things. The Unchained OSU Fashion Show will be held Saturday at the Ohio State University’s Ohio Union. This year’s theme is “Outer Space,” with the…
Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. I come from a line of poverty that goes back several generations. Many of my relatives—including my mother—lived in poverty for their entire lives. They could only focus on day-to-day survival and worrying about…
The earnings of low-income immigrants from mainland China in Hong Kong fell below pre-pandemic levels last year, with the recovery of income levels disrupted by an influx of new workers and a slowdown in consumer spending, a university-led study has found. The study, led by Baptist University (HKBU), collected the employment data of 3,236 working-age…
Britain’s center-left government outlined plans on Tuesday to curb spiraling welfare costs as it attempts to juggle a difficult set of competing objectives: saving public money, incentivizing work and protecting the most vulnerable. The announcement follows weeks of tense internal debate within the governing Labour Party, led by Prime Minister Keir Starmer, about how to…