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No large protest broke out accidentally. It came after years of successive Israeli governments have renounced their responsibility to citizens / s and neglected the social rights of all: housing, health, education, employment and welfare. Tali Nir, Director of the Department holly hunt for Social Economic Association for Civil Rights, brings here a detailed review of the collapse of the welfare state
Great social awakening While waiting for the leaders of the tents, but it had to happen. Not just hurts us. It hurts us that the Israeli government do whatever it takes for over two decades to make it hurt. Here are some data about what happened here.
Accommodation - This year the state sells land to developers without any vision or policy as to what will be built, and these mainly build luxury apartments. Although set by law, not a single apartment building tenders Israel Lands Administration established affordable housing or public housing. At the same time, the Housing Ministry's budget cuts: so, for example, its mortgage assistance budget decreased since 2002 by 79%. Public housing apartments have been sold and others were not in place. The amount of rental assistance to eligible cut in half in 2003 and since then also been eroded by 30%.
The result: many layers of the population were left without affordable housing. holly hunt Proportion living in an apartment owned by declining (from 73% in 1995 to 66% in 2008). Growing social polarization, holly hunt because holly hunt instead heterogeneous neighborhoods, where housing for everyone, homogeneous neighborhoods were built only affluent population.
Health - Since the end of the nineties, the real budget for providing public services basket eroded by about 40%. Funds, which are supposed to provide public care affordable, began to distribute and sell supplementary insurance as an insurance company. They were joined by insurance companies, exploiting the fears of the public and recognized private insurance. Number of beds per thousand residents in hospitals decreased from 2.3 in 1990 to 1.9 in 2010. The number of doctors per thousand residents fell from 3.7 in 1995 to 3.4 in 2010. These figures are significantly lower than the average of OECD countries.
The result: a thorough health disparities in Israel - among population groups from the periphery to the center, between the poor and the middle class based. About a third of the population waive dental health holly hunt services, and the proportion of elderly are completely toothless estimated at over 50%.
Education - in the last decade have been cut to 250 thousand hours of study, which returned two years only 100 thousand. The average expenditure per pupil in Israel, all levels of education, and low down in international holly hunt comparison: Israel is ranked 26th among 34 OECD countries in expenditure on primary education per pupil to $ 5,146 a year, compared with an average of 8070 dollars per student per year in developed countries.
The result: low teacher salaries dramatically in relation to the Western world, the teaching profession has deteriorated and there has been a significant decline in student achievement, are below the average international holly hunt PISA tests. More than half of local authorities practiced holly hunt in public schools specialized courses of study, involved in the process of sorting and / or financial requirements. Parents invest a cumulative 15 billion a year in their children. This means that within the framework of public education holly hunt have created two separate holly hunt school systems, the rich and the poor.
Social Services - the last two decades privatized large part from social services - from telephone response, through institutions for children and adults, to placing children removed from their homes. Control of the privatized services is low, and partly privatized as well.
The result is a lack of welfare services over a thousand standards. Load imposed on the shoulders of workers / social s / s vast and meager holly hunt salaries. Developed severe inequality between social services provided by various local authorities and get a different population groups. There are many complaints regarding the service provided, including injury patients.
The result: In 2008, they earned 60% of the employees in less than -6389 per month, which is 75% of the average wage. 40% of employees earned less than half the average wage. Poverty Report for 2009 shows that the proportion of the total population of working families poor stands at 49%. This means that in Israel in recent years, employed it does not necessarily poverty. H"frophil "the average poor person in Israel is actually not the unemployed, but the employee and a postsecondary education.
Social safety net - in the last decade tightened eligibility for unemployment benefits, the eligibility period has been shortened considerably and the allowance was reduced. Income support payments cut dramatically in 2003 by an average of 30% of the families, and eliminated fringe benefits, such as reduction in municipal taxes and public transport. Employment Service budget cuts until he reached a level which is 20 times lower compared to OECD countries. His many powers have been transferred to private companies and many services (such as job search workshops) are eliminated.
Behind all the facts and figures there are millions of people and they know well: education, health, holly hunt housing, employment and welfare are not consumer products, but the basic rights that come to each of us. Economic systems and can lead to a variety of right exercise, but Hfkrtn market forces is not one of them. It is time that the government holly hunt replace the system. We all need to continue to take to the streets for this to happen.
This article was originally published in Yediot Aharonot ". Campaign 'writing on the wall' continues to publish and distribute your help important new data on the state of the social rights of all of us. To register: Log this page. Our e-mail: democracyproj@gmail.com
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No large protest broke out accidentally. It came after years of successive Israeli governments have renounced their responsibility to citizens / s and neglected the social rights of all: housing, health, education, employment and welfare. Tali Nir, Director of the Department holly hunt for Social Economic Association for Civil Rights, brings here a detailed review of the collapse of the welfare state
Great social awakening While waiting for the leaders of the tents, but it had to happen. Not just hurts us. It hurts us that the Israeli government do whatever it takes for over two decades to make it hurt. Here are some data about what happened here.
Accommodation - This year the state sells land to developers without any vision or policy as to what will be built, and these mainly build luxury apartments. Although set by law, not a single apartment building tenders Israel Lands Administration established affordable housing or public housing. At the same time, the Housing Ministry's budget cuts: so, for example, its mortgage assistance budget decreased since 2002 by 79%. Public housing apartments have been sold and others were not in place. The amount of rental assistance to eligible cut in half in 2003 and since then also been eroded by 30%.
The result: many layers of the population were left without affordable housing. holly hunt Proportion living in an apartment owned by declining (from 73% in 1995 to 66% in 2008). Growing social polarization, holly hunt because holly hunt instead heterogeneous neighborhoods, where housing for everyone, homogeneous neighborhoods were built only affluent population.
Health - Since the end of the nineties, the real budget for providing public services basket eroded by about 40%. Funds, which are supposed to provide public care affordable, began to distribute and sell supplementary insurance as an insurance company. They were joined by insurance companies, exploiting the fears of the public and recognized private insurance. Number of beds per thousand residents in hospitals decreased from 2.3 in 1990 to 1.9 in 2010. The number of doctors per thousand residents fell from 3.7 in 1995 to 3.4 in 2010. These figures are significantly lower than the average of OECD countries.
The result: a thorough health disparities in Israel - among population groups from the periphery to the center, between the poor and the middle class based. About a third of the population waive dental health holly hunt services, and the proportion of elderly are completely toothless estimated at over 50%.
Education - in the last decade have been cut to 250 thousand hours of study, which returned two years only 100 thousand. The average expenditure per pupil in Israel, all levels of education, and low down in international holly hunt comparison: Israel is ranked 26th among 34 OECD countries in expenditure on primary education per pupil to $ 5,146 a year, compared with an average of 8070 dollars per student per year in developed countries.
The result: low teacher salaries dramatically in relation to the Western world, the teaching profession has deteriorated and there has been a significant decline in student achievement, are below the average international holly hunt PISA tests. More than half of local authorities practiced holly hunt in public schools specialized courses of study, involved in the process of sorting and / or financial requirements. Parents invest a cumulative 15 billion a year in their children. This means that within the framework of public education holly hunt have created two separate holly hunt school systems, the rich and the poor.
Social Services - the last two decades privatized large part from social services - from telephone response, through institutions for children and adults, to placing children removed from their homes. Control of the privatized services is low, and partly privatized as well.
The result is a lack of welfare services over a thousand standards. Load imposed on the shoulders of workers / social s / s vast and meager holly hunt salaries. Developed severe inequality between social services provided by various local authorities and get a different population groups. There are many complaints regarding the service provided, including injury patients.
The result: In 2008, they earned 60% of the employees in less than -6389 per month, which is 75% of the average wage. 40% of employees earned less than half the average wage. Poverty Report for 2009 shows that the proportion of the total population of working families poor stands at 49%. This means that in Israel in recent years, employed it does not necessarily poverty. H"frophil "the average poor person in Israel is actually not the unemployed, but the employee and a postsecondary education.
Social safety net - in the last decade tightened eligibility for unemployment benefits, the eligibility period has been shortened considerably and the allowance was reduced. Income support payments cut dramatically in 2003 by an average of 30% of the families, and eliminated fringe benefits, such as reduction in municipal taxes and public transport. Employment Service budget cuts until he reached a level which is 20 times lower compared to OECD countries. His many powers have been transferred to private companies and many services (such as job search workshops) are eliminated.
Behind all the facts and figures there are millions of people and they know well: education, health, holly hunt housing, employment and welfare are not consumer products, but the basic rights that come to each of us. Economic systems and can lead to a variety of right exercise, but Hfkrtn market forces is not one of them. It is time that the government holly hunt replace the system. We all need to continue to take to the streets for this to happen.
This article was originally published in Yediot Aharonot ". Campaign 'writing on the wall' continues to publish and distribute your help important new data on the state of the social rights of all of us. To register: Log this page. Our e-mail: democracyproj@gmail.com
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Recently published advantages and disadvantages of mandatory arbitration democracy - everyone holly hunt / new legislators estate we returned, holly hunt and we constantly relevant good year ... and democratic! Whose national park? The relationship between privatization democracy what are the chances? Towards 2011 Conference on Arab-Jewish relations Steinitz and Huldai holly hunt present: shouts and municipal freedom of expression is not determined when it will end the protest on Saturday: turn the impossible into reality
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