founded after one year, recipients had reduced income volatility, we re able to find full-time employment, and we re healthier, with lower levels of depression ending society. opponents say these programs are unsustainable and misguided. they want to keep all the different programs, want to keep the heating assistance, want to keep the housing assistance, when we keep the food, and then to top it off with another $500, as if it s the last $500 that s stopping, kind of, the progress we want to see. this is stigma at that says that working people, they ve got it. they don t need any help. we do. we need help. we might seem like we re fun. but everybody needs help in some aspect of their life. that was nbc s shaq brewster reporting. at the top of the hour, biden at the lectern. we ll preview his state of the union address, just two days away. it comes as kevin mccarthy just got his hands on the speakers gavel. and more on the chinese spy balloon. what shooting it down means for
that surprise you? i think the one thing that really surprised me is the mental health and the psychological distress results. one in three applicants, according to the research, experiencing psychological distress for more than half of the previous month, five times more than a comparable national population. this was not during 2020. this was not during 2021. this was april of 2022. across the country, there were more than 100 cash assistance and guaranteed income programs launched. most on a temporary basis. an independent preliminary analysis of a small program out of stockton, california found that after one year, recipients had reduced income volatility, we re able to find full-time employment, and we re healthier, with lower levels of depression and anxiety. opponents say this program is unsustainable and misguided. they won all the programs want to keep the heating assistance, want to keep the housing assistance, the food, and just topped off with another $500 as if it
that surprised you? i think the one thing that really surprised me is the mental health and the psychological distress results. reporter: one in three applicants, according to their research, experiencing psychological distress for more than half of the previous month. five times more than the comparable national population. and this wasn t during 2020. it wasn t during, you know, 2021, this is april of 2022. reporter: across the country, there are more than 100 cash assistance and guaranteed income programs launched. most on a temporary basis. an independent preliminary analysis of a smaller program out of stockton, california, found that after one year recipients had reduced income volatility, were able to find full-time employment and were healthier with lower levels of depression and anxiety. opponents say these programs are unsustainable and misguided. they want to keep all the different programs, you want to keep the heating assistance, want to keep the housing assistan
reporter: across the country, there are more than 100 cash assistance and guaranteed income programs launched, most on a temporary basis. an independent preliminary analysis of a smaller program out of stockton, california, found after one year, recipients had reduced income volatility, were able to find full-time employment and were healthier with lower levels of depression and anxiety. opponents say they are misguided. they want to keep all the different programs, the heating assistance, the housing assistance, the food, and then just top it off with another $500 as if it s the last $500 that s stopping the progress that we want to see. it s the stigma out there that says that working people, they got it. they don t need any help. we do. we need help. we might seem like we functioning. but everybody needs help in some type of aspect of their life. working seven days a week with kids. she says she needs that money.
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Summary: Many African countries have placed economic diversification high on the policy agenda, yet they first need to define what it means in their specific structural and socioeconomic contexts.
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For decades, economic diversification has been a policy priority for low- and middle-income economies. In the words of former managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Christine Lagarde, “We know that economic diversification is good for growth. Diversification is also tremendously important for resilience.” Unfortunately, this goal continues to elude many African countries. In fact, the continent is home to eight of the world’s fifteen least economically diversified countries. This reality weakens the foundation of their economic transfomation and slows their pace of progress. It also makes these countries part