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| | Making Services Work for the Poor |
 | | Participatory budgeting in Brazil started as a way for citizens to participate in budget formulation and then hold the municipal government accountable for executing the budget. | | | The only issue that really matters is whether the mechanism that delivers key services strengthens poor people’s ability to monitor and discipline providers, raises their voice in policymaking, and gets them the effective services they need for their families. | | | The citizen-policymaker link is working either when citizens can hold policymakers accountable for public services that benefit the poor or when policymakers care about the health and education of poor people. |
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Care of the Poor by the Church |
| | All public statutory bodies dealing with the care of the poor obtain their funds from taxes or rates, to which Catholic as citizens contribute either directly or indirectly. | | | In addition to assisting at the Divine services and at giving instruction, they had to visit the sick and prisoners, to care for poor widows, etc. Individual provision for the poor and visitation of the poor in their houses in accordance with a special list (matricula) were strictly practised in every Christian community. | | | In fact, organizations usually make provision for exceptional cases by placing funds at the disposal of the priests or some officer of the society, no account of which will be rendered even to the organization itself. |
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| | Growth Is Good for the Poor--Abstract |
| | Good rule of law and fiscal discipline are other factors that benefit the poor to the same extent as the whole economy. | | | Openness to foreign trade benefits the poor to the same extent that it benefits the whole economy. | | | Avoidance of high inflation in fact is "super-pro-poor": that is, high inflation is more harmful to the income of the poor than to GDP overall. |
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| | POOR - Definition |
| | {Poor rate}, an assessment or tax, as in an English parish, for the relief or support of the poor. | | | The Mosaic legislation regarding the poor is specially important. | | | [adj] not sufficient to meet a need; "an inadequate income"; "a poor salary"; "money is short"; "on short rations"; "food is in short supply"; "short on experience" |
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http://www.hyperdictionary.com/dictionary/poor
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| | Whatever: Being Poor |
| | Being poor is spending your non-working time running between the grocery store where you cash checks to the bank where you deposit the cash to cover the previous checks that you cashed to buy bus tickets to another town so that you could interview for a better job than the one that you've got now. | | | Being poor means you sign every single free credit application that comes in the mail, and use the 28% cash advance checks to get cash with which you can pay the electric bill, and then wait for the next set to pay the new ones off. | | | Being poor means that the $50.00 subtraction screw-up in balancing the checkbook throws you into a year-long spiral of out-of-control debt and bounced check fees. |
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http://www.scalzi.com/whatever/003704.html
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| | How "Poor" are America's Poor? |
| | There was an additional $11.2 billion in Medicare spending on poor persons that year which was not included in the CRS total. | | | Few of these households are poor by any normal standard, especially when assets and non-cash benefits are counted. | | | The fact is that the annual Census Bureau poverty reports vastly overstate the number of American poor because in determining who is "poor" they ignore assets and dramatically undercount the incomes of low income households. |
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| | Understanding Poverty in America |
| | Some 70 percent of poor households report that during the course of the past year they were able to meet "all essential expenses," including mortgage, rent, utility bills, and important medical care. | | | During at least one month in the preceding year, some 20 percent of poor households reported they were unable to pay their fuel, gas, or electric bills promptly; around 4 percent had their utilities cut off at some point due to nonpayment. | | | The median value of homes owned by poor households was $86,600 in 2001 or 70 percent of the median value of all homes owned in the United States. |
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| | Meme Watch: A Payroll Tax Rise? - A plausible scenario for raising taxes on the poor. By Timothy Noah |
| | Instead of making poor people pay for the cuts, the plan is to grow the budget deficit. | | | Larry Lindsey's argument would basically be that payroll taxes fund a progressive Social Security system, so even if payroll taxes are regressive on their face the net result IS progressive. | | | If it happens, look for the Bushies to argue that a payroll tax increase isn't a tax increase because, as Larry Lindsey has already explained, the payroll tax isn't a tax. |
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http://slate.msn.com/id/2076725
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| | Standard and Poor's Fund Awards have come to be accepted globally as the performance standard by which fund managers and investment management groups are measured. | | | About SandP Standard & Poor's is the worlds leading provider of fund information and analysis - 5000 professionals in 20 countries have been providing independent and trusted expertise in the global financial markets for over 140 years. | | | Privacy Notice Data - Standard and Poor's Investment Services - The McGraw-Hill Companies, Limited (2005). |
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| | Gifts to the Poor - A Purim Tradition - OU.ORG |
| | One is not strict with the poor on Purim in determining whether they are needy or not. | | | Proper observance of Purim would require the spending of at least as much on this Mitzvah of Purim as on any of its other Mitzvot. | | | If one has set aside money for gifts to the poor on Purim, he may not change their intended purpose and give them to another Charity. |
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| | Technorati Tag: poor |
| | Katrina and the Poor: Good Stuff from Danny G... | | | A selection of Danny Glover’s speach at the Vanguard Public Foundation’s benefit for Katrina victims: When the hurricane struck the Gulf and the... | | | I won't be checking for any friends updates right now, I'm just too darn busy. |
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Poverty and Pauperism |
| | Probably this is true as regards the poorest of the poor at these two periods. | | | Thus, intemperance can be diminished by a better regulation of the liquor traffic, and by every measure that makes better provision for food, clothing, housing, security, and opportunity among the poor. | | | Apart from this restricted and technical signification, poverty means in general a condition of insufficient subsistence, but different persons have different conceptions of sufficiency. |
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| | Iowa Poorhouse History |
| | Butler County Poor Farm and Cemetery, Butler County, IA [We have provided you with a copy of this page with full credits.] | | | "Polk County was supposed to have a poor house. | | | Photograph of Employees of the CLINTON County Poor Farm (c1913) |
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http://www.poorhousestory.com/poorhouses_in_iowa.htm
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| | Investing news and analysis provided by BusinessWeek, Standard & Poor's, and other sources | | | Ask him about IPOs, mergers, venture capital, and any other market questions you have! | | | Will the bull continue to charge into its fourth year? |
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| | Food For The Poor: News Room |
| | Food For The Poor maintains a low overhead ratio of 3.98%. | | | Food For The Poor is an international relief and development organization that has implemented a highly efficient strategy for aiding the destitute, and remains the #1 relief agency in the Caribbean and Central America. | | | Food For The Poor welcomes donations of funds that will assist in the transportation of the aid. |
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http://www.foodforthepoor.org/news/releases/katrina.html
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| | Ronald Reagan, De-Mythologized |
| | Did they blame the poor for being poor, and resent demands on them in the form of a few tax dollars, to address their hunger? | | | Then when he was president, at one point Reagan tried to cut federal funding for school lunches for the poor. | | | Reagan's gutting of the unions and attempt to remove social supports for the poor and the middle class contributed to the creation of an America where most people barely get by while government programs that could help create wealth are destroyed. |
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| | Poor Clio |
| | Also, my client Southern Mutual Help Association has created a special initiative focused on hurricane recovery issues for the rural poor, the SMHA Rural Recovery Fund. | | | The poor will fare far worse than the affluent, and although it would be conveniently easy to attribute this to some specific racism, the fact that those with greater means tend to occupy the higher and drier ground is not unique to New Orleans or even the South. | | | Sites That Are What Their URLs Say They Are Dept.: |
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| | Poor Magazine/PNN |
| | PNN is a multi-media access project of POOR Magazine, dedicated to reframing the news, issues and solutions from low and no income communities, as well as providing society with a perspective usually not heard or seen within the mainstream media. | | | Poor Magazine gives a fresh, vibrant voice to the poor,Emily Gurnon, San Francisco Examiner | | | What It Means To Be Poor, Nina Siegal, SF Bay Guardian |
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| | Poor Quotes |
| | Poor Encyclopedia Links Poor History Links Poor Definition | | | Add the "Quote of the Day" to Your Site or Blog - it's Easy! |
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