Sweden Herald - Latest Sweden News | The Turnaround: Håkan Nesser is Released - with Ankle Shackles by Sweden Herald

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Håkan Nesser, the 76‑year‑old Swedish novelist who has published 48 books selling around 20 million copies worldwide, will be released from prison on Friday to serve the remainder of his 1.5‑year sentence at home on Gotland while wearing ankle shackles; the release, ordered by the Swedish Prison and Probation Service, requires him to work on a set schedule for the Lärbo Hometown Association, and comes after an initial denial of an ankle monitor was overturned following media attention, with authorities deeming his risk of reoffending low.

Read more: https://swedenherald.com/article/the-turnaround-hakan-nesser-released-with-electronic-ankle-monitor

#HkanNesser #Helagotland #SwedishPrison #LrboAssociation #SocialWelfare

Government spends 25 times more on benefits than jobs for young people, says Milburn

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crrpx4p1z71o?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss

#Politics #Economy #SocialWelfare

RE: https://mastodon.social/@norightturnnz/116610787137983708

"And that's basically National's housing policy. Back in the 1990's, they sold state houses, raised rents, and handed out money to their landlord cronies via the accommodation supplement. ... Then, in the 2010's ... did it all over again. ... And now its 2026, the end of the first term of a national-led regime ... doing it all again, this time with the added insult of pretending state house tenants are "lotto winners": "

#NZPol #Housing #SocialWelfare

A quotation from Molly Ivins

Molly Ivins (1944-2007) American writer, political columnist [Mary Tyler Ivins]
Essay (1995-12-24), “Look to the Children of the Poor in This Season of Budget-Slashing,” Fort Worth Star-Telegram

More about this quote: wist.info/ivins-molly/83595/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #mollyivins #conservatives #government #poor #poverty #publicpolicy #rightwing #safetynet #socialprogram #socialwelfare #welfare

A Job I Like or a Job I Can Get: Designing Job #RecommenderSystems Using Field Experiments https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:arx:papers:2603.21699&r=&r=exp
"… welfare-optimal RSs rank vacancies by an expected-surplus index, and shows why rankings based solely on utility, #hiring probabilities, or observed application behavior are generically suboptimal
… Algorithms informed by the model-implied optimal ranking substantially outperform existing approaches and perform close to the welfare-optimal benchmark.

While the joint application-and-hiring probability is not welfare-optimal in theory, it emerges as a strong empirical benchmark in our setting. This result is structural rather than algorithmic: application probabilities are empirically small and remain so even under recommendation rules designed to stimulate applications
… rankings based solely on application behavior are theoretically fragile
… Machine-learning tools can substantially improve matching outcomes, but only when embedded in a framework that defines the economic objective and disciplines behavioral assumptions with experimental evidence. Without such a framework, RSs optimized for observable behaviors may perform well on predictive metrics yet remain misaligned with welfare-relevant outcomes."
#LaborMarkets #jobtech #socialWelfare #ExperimentalEcon

How a Grassroots Initiative Became the Backbone of Bosnian Humanitarian Activism

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://balkaninsight.com/2026/04/14/how-a-grassroots-initiative-became-the-backbone-of-bosnian-humanitarian-activism/bi/