livelihood
a means of supporting one's existence, especially financially or vocationally; living: to earn a livelihood as a tenant farmer.
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Back in April, Togo launched a social welfare program using digital cash transfers as the government tried to help informal workers whose livelihoods had been disrupted by the pandemic and the accompanying lockdown.
Digital platforms have been a boon for social assistance in African countries during the pandemic | Yinka Adegoke | September 9, 2020 | QuartzThe Democratic Party now has a crucial opportunity to join our fight and use their platform to ensure private equity can no longer destroy the livelihoods of workers left and right without any accountability.
Why the Democratic Party must make a clean break with Wall Street | matthewheimer | September 8, 2020 | FortuneIt’s a monumental failing that we have made restaurant owners and workers choose between their livelihoods and their lives.
Is the Government Just Going to Watch the Restaurant Industry Die? | Elazar Sontag | August 28, 2020 | EaterYet heritage is essential for social wellbeing, for identity creation, for safeguarding traditional knowledge and livelihoods and for sustainable development.
Some of Africa’s most important heritage sites will be lost to climate change without intervention | Nick Brooks | August 20, 2020 | QuartzEvery generation of online creators has been through some version of this crisis, with corporate decisions destroying their livelihoods or fracturing their communities.
TikTok made him famous. Now he’s imagining a world without it | Abby Ohlheiser | August 14, 2020 | MIT Technology Review
However, miners still face harsh conditions and must be supported by more livelihood and jobs programs.
Aaron Rodgers Takes Aim at Congo’s ‘Blood Minerals’ War | John Prendergast | December 3, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTTo never, ever, ever put my livelihood in a position where I depended on white people liking me.
Men Without a Country: Mike Brown, Trayvon Martin, My Father and Me | Arthur Chu | August 12, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTEbony had been 12 when her mother was suddenly deprived of her livelihood.
It is often directly related to your income or livelihood and I take it very seriously.
These Are the 7 Types of Patients That Drive Your Doctor Totally Bananas | Dr. Jennifer Caudle | February 6, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe government tells these people that they have to be responsible for their own livelihood, then denies them the right to work.
New Report Exposes Trafficking Rings in Egypt’s Sinai | John Beck | December 12, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTHe was used to finding himself suddenly cut off from the means of livelihood.
The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol | William J. LockeI judge that of nearly thirty thousand people who live here not ten thousand have any regular employment or means of livelihood.
Glances at Europe | Horace GreeleyThe property of other people was their chief source of livelihood, and the streets, or the jails, were their homes.
The Garret and the Garden | R.M. BallantyneLastly, he began to feel some anxiety as to his future livelihood when his course at the Conservatoire should have come to an end.
The Life & Letters of Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky | Modeste TchaikovskyThe parish must keep them, it was often said; and they did not care to obtain an honest livelihood by the sweat of their brow.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. | E. Farr and E. H. Nolan
British Dictionary definitions for livelihood
/ (ˈlaɪvlɪˌhʊd) /
occupation or employment
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