Welfare issue? (Little Upsilon)

https://sim05.simcountry.com/cgi-bin/cgi2nova?SN_ADDRESS=wwwCountry&SN_METHOD=w3graph&miTable=cntrhist&miKey=3464&miColumn=vCmainWelfareIndex

https://sim05.simcountry.com/cgi-bin/cgi2nova?SN_ADDRESS=wwwCountry&SN_METHOD=w3graph&miTable=cntrhist&miKey=3458&miColumn=vCmainWelfareIndex

https://sim05.simcountry.com/cgi-bin/cgi2nova?SN_ADDRESS=wwwCountry&SN_METHOD=w3graph&miTable=cntrhist&miKey=3457

same problem in both my countries ....have been in steady decline for no apparent reason

https://sim01.simcountry.com/cgi-bin/cgi2nova?SN_ADDRESS=wwwCountry&SN_METHOD=w3graph&miTable=cntrhist&miKey=3039&miColumn=vCmainWelfareIndex

I think the recent update has screwed with my welfare as well. with 250 Salaries on all my corps which are 100% upgraded, they are still only producing 101% production.
All CEO corps in my country and in my slave are doing the same, and profitablilty has declined.
I'll try you're advice as well, Wendy.

your gov salaries are much lower than your company salaries

Low salaries doesn't merit a welfare of 70.
I pay my soldiers, officers, teachers, nurses, doctors and public workers so little they can barely afford to repair their shanties,
yet my welfare index can easily be 130 by building enough hospitals and water treatment
facilities and making sure social security pays more than a job as a low level worker.

Damn, you let your gov. workers live in shanties.
Mine all live in tents, on cots, and they have to dig a hole to take a $#!&. But, my welfare is just fine.
Have you sold off any pop. lately?

Tents, shovels and cots? Keep them as relief supplies. Government workers should live within a four-foot high chamber made of broken glass, mud and straw and live on the hope of leaving the country one day through their sale. Except, of course, for the feces harvesters who live in opulent mansions and supply agricultural and food corporations with fertilizer by cleaning out latrines outside other public workers' shanties. Selling pop affects the welfare of your entire empire, so that might do it.

I didn't even think of using the feces for fertilizer. YES, I found a new job for the school janitors during summer breaks. I'm not sure about the entire empire, but individual countries, I'm certain is a yes.

Call them custodians. They're less likely to revolt if you let them know they're the only thing standing between prosperity and drowning in an ocean of human waste.

I run at equal salaries and then have SSI at 60%

I can't complain about my welfare index.

check your indexes,maily health, education and transportation. somewhere, an idex dropped.

or

you are going down on the game levels.

or employment dropped.

or another country in the empire sold some of its population.

or, and very important, salaries dropped in the corporation.

the welfare index is not dropping if nothing happens. The formula is unchanged for a long time and it has its paramemters.