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MPs attempt to revive animal welfare measures
Banning live animal exports, trophy hunting imports and criminalising dog theft are back on the agenda.
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Welfare cuts worth billions planned by ministers
The changes, affecting hundreds of thousands of people from 2025, would save £4bn in welfare payments.
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RSPCA push revival of dropped animal welfare bill
Labour plan to force the Kept Animals Bill, dropped by the government, back into Parliament.
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Ministers accused of betrayal after animal welfare bill scrapped
The government says changes will be still be delivered, but Labour calls the decision a step backwards.
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Disability work tests to be scrapped in welfare shake-up
Jeremy Hunt says claimants will be able to seek work "without fear of losing financial support".
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SNP asks for triple lock and welfare rise commitment
The SNP's Westminster leader has asked the PM if he stood by a previous Conservative commitment to raise benefits and pensions in line with inflation. [...]
Can ‘Kinship Care’ Help the Child Welfare System? The White House Wants to Try.
The Biden administration proposes spending $20 billion over a decade to help some of the most vulnerable families in the country, including relatives [...]
The Brett Favre Mississippi welfare fraud scandal, explained
We live in an age of brazen, ham-handed grift. Have you heard the one involving the retired NFL star, a WWE wrestler, corrupt Southern officials, a [...]
Carl Icahn loses proxy fight with McDonald’s over animal welfare
Carl Icahn speaking at Delivering Alpha in New York on Sept. 13, 2016.David A. Grogan | CNBCActivist investor Carl Icahn lost his proxy fight with McD [...]
McDonald’s shareholders vote on Carl Icahn proxy fight over animal welfare
Signage outside a McDonald's Corp. fast food restaurant in Louisville, Kentucky, U.S., on Friday, Oct. 22, 2021.Luke Sharrett | Bloomberg | Getty Imag [...]
Animal welfare plan unveiled by authorities
Chris Sherwood, chief govt of the RSPCA, stated: "These bulletins will make an actual and lasting distinction to animals' welfare, so we're happy t [...]
Queen's Speech: Authorities makes pledges on animal welfare
All creatures nice and small can be protected within the new proposals, in response to the Queen's Speech.
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Two Many years After the ‘Finish of Welfare,’ Democrats Are Altering Course
WASHINGTON — 1 / 4-century in the past, a Democratic president celebrated “the tip of welfare as we all know it,” difficult the poor to train “inde [...]
Romney’s lesson to Democrats on little one poverty: Make welfare easy like stimulus checks
Suppose you’re a single mum or dad elevating two younger youngsters, ages Three and 5. You have been furloughed within the spring, when the big- [...]