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  2. Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005

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    Status: In force. Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act 2005 or MGNREGA, earlier known as the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act or NREGA, [3] is an Indian social welfare measure that aims to guarantee the ' right to work '. This act was passed on 23 August 2005 [1] and was implemented in February 2006 under the UPA ...

  3. National Rural Employment Generation Scheme - Wikipedia

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    The National Rural Employment Generation Scheme (NREGS) is an employment scheme in India for providing 100 days guaranteed wage employment for all employment seekers above 18 years of age and willing to do work. The scheme came into force on 1995 in 199 districts in India and extended to another 130 districts later.

  4. Measuring poverty - Wikipedia

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    The United States uses an absolute poverty measure based on the U.S. Department of Agriculture's "economy food plan", adjusted for inflation. The World Bank also defines poverty in absolute terms. It defines extreme poverty as living on less than US$1.90 per day. [2] (. PPP ), and moderate poverty as less than $3.10 a day.

  5. Social Security's 2025 COLA Forecast Just Improved. Here's ...

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    The group then increased that number to 2.6%. In mid-May, following fresh inflation data, the Senior Citizens League upped its 2025 Social Security COLA estimate ever so slightly to 2.66%. That's ...

  6. SECURE Act - Wikipedia

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    The SECURE Act incentivizes employers to create 401 (k) plans and to expand access to their existing plans to more workers. One provision allows unrelated small employers to join together to establish a shared 401 (k) plan known as a Multiple Employer Plan (MEP). This allows small businesses to pool resources and mitigate the administrative ...

  7. Sunni Islam in Iraq - Wikipedia

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    History. In the early Islamic period, Iraq was a key center of the Abbasid Caliphate, with the city of Baghdad serving as its capital from the 8th to the 13th century. Sunni Arabs played a significant role in the administration (including the ruling Abbasid dynasty) and cultural life of the caliphate, and many important figures of Islamic scholarship and literature emerged from Iraq during ...

  8. List of members of the 18th Lok Sabha - Wikipedia

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  9. Three-point estimation - Wikipedia

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    Three-point estimation. The three-point estimation technique is used in management and information systems applications for the construction of an approximate probability distribution representing the outcome of future events, based on very limited information. While the distribution used for the approximation might be a normal distribution ...