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The Year That Broke Care Work
The crisis of care is not new for low-income parents. The pandemic just spread the pain and created new audiences for old solutions.
Illustration by Tara Jacoby
A small guaranteed income is included in the new stimulus package approved by Congress on Wednesday afternoon. Starting around July, households earning $150,000 or less annually will receive monthly payments ranging from $250 to $300 per child, part of the larger $1.9 trillion package in response to the coronavirus pandemic. These are a kind of advance on an existing but expanded child tax credit. What that will look like for those families, however, is a direct deposit or check, not a new program they will then need to apply or ask for. The payment per child may seem small, but in total, the impact is estimated to be a 40 percent reduction of child poverty nationally, cutting child poverty in half for Black families specifically. And it will achieve this by doing something painfully straight
Lagos, March 8, 2021 Mr Lansana Wonneh, Deputy Country Representative, United Nations Women (UN Women) on Monday in Lagos said that the global stock exchanges and private sector should be used to reduce gender disparities.
Wonneh made the assertion at a webinar organised by the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE to commemorate the 2021 International Women’s Day and seventh Ring the Bell for Gender Equality with the theme “Choose to Challenge.”
Wonneh said: “Stock exchanges are formidable allies to facilitate the gender equitable economic opportunities given their role in helping companies, investors and policy makers to support sustainable development practices.
“It is important to note the progress made in gender equality, in Nigeria for example, the overall gender index improved by five percent since 2018.