A new report by @srpoverty finds that 176 million people could fall into poverty.

Weak & patchy social protection is insufficient to make up for the post-2008 austerity legacy that gutted public healthcare & increased precarious work + inequality.

https://bit.ly/2Fix7xx 

The @srpoverty report finds that most social protection measures are maladapted, short-term, reactive, and inattentive to the realities of people in poverty.

Similarly, in our research @hrw, we found Covid-19 related social protection excluded many people in need of support.

In #Kazakhstan, Covid-19 cash transfers were low & only provided during the quarantine. Unemployment assistance only lasts up to 6 months and the anti-poverty program TSA is too low to pay for food, shelter, and water. https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/08/17/kazakhstan-extend-expand-covid-19-aid

In the US, the #CARESAct excluded eight million informal and unauthorized workers, since only workers with social security numbers are eligible for benefits through the national unemployment system.

https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/03/30/us-economic-relief-package-shortchanges-workers

In #Nigeria, only a fraction of people received food assistance or cash transfers. Excluding informal workers from social protections violates their right to social security enshrined in international human rights law.

https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/04/14/nigeria-protect-most-vulnerable-covid-19-response