To the degree that people get trapped on welfare benefits, it's mainly because of the punitive mechanisms put into place - allegedly - to prevent "welfare dependence".
Those eligible would have to pre-register at counters in Pengkalan Raja Tun Uda on the island or Pangkalan Sultan Abdul Halim on the mainland with their #MyKad and OKU cards issued by the #SocialWelfare Department
#Ontario takes pride in its commitment to #SocialWelfare, yet a critical issue remains largely unnoticed: the disconnect between provincial and federal social supports when it comes to the dignity of older adults.
"The welfare of a nation can scarcely be inferred from a measure of national income"
— economist Simon Kuznets, who created the GDP measurement for the Commerce Department in 1934
Theoretical analysis of #MachineLearning decision making. #Fairness viewed as #SocialWelfare should also take into account the alternative decision (called #counterfactual outcomes). This paper proposes a framework which models two kinds of actors: (1) a "principal" who is the central organisation; (2) a set of "agents" who provides the service under consideration. The social welfare goal is to design reward functions with high utility for the principal.
Say you were to ask an AI the question: "how can we improve public safety?" it might look at the statistics and give a response like "police funding does not scale with benefit, it would be best to cap it and divert money into #socialwelfare" or "gun ownership increases a person's likelihood of getting shot, it would be best to limit it." Would people even believe it? 1/