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More immigrants on welfare

Almost one in three social welfare recipients in Norway are immigrants, and the proportion is increasing. Figures from Statistics Norway (Statistisk sentralbyrå, SSB) showed...

Immigrants finally gain more respect

Attitudes towards immigrants and immigration are steadily becoming more positive in Norway, according to a new study by state statistics bureau SSB (Statistics Norway)....

More billions behind new crisis package

Prime Minister Erna Solberg and her Conservatives-led government rolled out yet another crisis package Friday, funded with an extra NOK 27 billion from the...

Tax evasion poses threat to welfare

Norway's state economic crime unit Økokrim has singled out tax evasion as posing among the biggest threats to the welfare state that's been built...

Immigration tests the welfare state

Norway has not succeeded in ushering refugees and many other immigrants into the workforce, notes the leader of a commission that's been studying the...

Immigrants face tough new rules

Norway's conservative government coalition moved forward on Tuesday with the introduction of tough new immigration rules, especially aimed at asylum seekers. Sylvi Listhaug, the new...

Child welfare agency under more fire

Norway's child welfare agency (Barnevernet) continues to engage in controversial practice that's led to political problems between Norway and several eastern European countries. Barnevernet has earlier...

Immigrants turn to Conservatives

The number of Norwegian residents with non-western background who voted for Norway's Conservative Party (Høyre) doubled between the elections of 2011 and 2013, according to new...

New NAV study shatters welfare myths

At least 25 percent of people who are long-term unemployed in Norway receive no welfare support whatsoever, and instead get by on their own...

Alarming numbers of youth on welfare

Nearly 10 percent of Norwegian youth, many of them from relatively affluent middle-class families, have registered themselves in the state welfare system known as...
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