Economic, social and cultural rights relate to the conditions necessary to meet basic human needs such as food, shelter, education, health care, and gainful employment. Together with civil and political rights, they form a holistic vision of human dignity in which all human rights are interdependent and indivisible.
Some participants of the Wisconsin program are working part time and do not earn minimum wages, therefore they receive welfare payment. People who work less then 30 hours a week, and live in the Wisconsin program area, are forced to participate in a personal program in the center that often includes, like [...]
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"Wash you, make you clean; Put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes, cease to do evil...learn to do well...seek judgement...relieve the oppressed...judge the fatherless...plead for the widow"
"..Do not steal from the
poor, for they are oppressed, nor should you oppress the
downtrodden.."
"..Thou shalt neither vex
a stranger, nor oppress him..If thou at all afflict them, &
they cry to me, I will surely hear their cry.."
"..Woe to them that devise
iniquity..taking them by violence; & houses, & take them
away: so they oppress a man & his house, even a man & his
heritage.."