public assistance
Sociology
(noun)
the various forms of material aid provided by the government to those who are in need
Economics
Examples of public assistance in the following topics:
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Public Assistance
- Public assistance is the provision of a minimal level of social support for all citizens.
- In most developed countries, public assistance is provided by the government, charities, social groups, and religious groups.
- Individuals must meet specific criteria to be eligible to receive public assistance.
- In the United States, the funds for public assistance are given at a flat rate to each state based on population.
- Individuals must apply for monetary public assistance and meet specific criteria.
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Government Assistance Programs
- Federal assistance is defined as any program that directly assists the public in areas, such as education, health, and public welfare.
- Public welfare, such as the temporary aid to needy families (TANF) program, is a major form of federal assistance that provides food and income to families in poverty.
- An example of an agency that oversees the administration of federal assistance is the Department of Housing and Urban Development, which uses grants to provide public affordable housing.
- In the United States, federal assistance is defined as any federal program, project, service, or activity provided by the federal government that directly assists or benefits the American public in the areas of education, health, public safety, public welfare, and public works, among others.
- In the U.S., the Department of Housing and Urban Development administers many government assistance programs, most notably federal public housing.
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Privacy Rights and the Right to Die
- There is a wide range of public opinion about the right-to-die movement in the United States, yet It is only legal in a few states.
- Physician aid-in-dying (PAD), or assisted suicide, is legal in the states of Washington, Oregon, and Montana.
- During the past 30 years, public opinion research shows that views on euthanasia tend to correlate with religious affiliation and culture, though not gender.
- Physician-assisted suicide in the United States is legal in the states of Oregon, Montana, and Washington .
- Map of the United States highlighting states and districts with legalized physician-assisted suicide.
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Infertility
- Infertility, or the ability to conceive, can be treated by assisted reproductive technologies which can aid conception.
- If the cause of infertility is identified, several assisted reproductive technologies (ART) are available to aid conception.
- A common type of assisted reproductive technology is in vitro fertilization (IVF) where an egg and sperm are combined outside the body and then placed in the uterus.
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Humanitarian Efforts
- Humanitarian aid is material or logistical assistance in response to crises including natural and man-made disasters.
- Humanitarian aid is material or logistical assistance in response to crises including natural and man-made disasters.
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Support Personnel
- Support personnel provide after-sales or technical assistance to customers, including functions ranging from engineering to marketing.
- At large corporations such as IBM, support personnel includes technical specialists who assist or play a key role on customer account teams.
- While support personnel are often seen as those providing after-sales service or technical assistance, the definition of support staff also includes functions such as accounting, finance, human resources, supply chain, etc.
- Other common support roles that work with sales managers directly or assist clients and customers with product and service issues include sales engineers, technical support specialists, and customer support representatives .
- Marketing, advertising, and public relations professionals often support sales and executive teams during the prospecting and evaluation phases of the sales process.
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Anchimeric Assistance by Other Neighboring Groups
- The following diagram shows three examples of neighboring double bond interaction, the first being one of the most striking cases of anchimeric assistance on record.
- Examples of other neighboring group perturbations, including non-bonding electron pair assistance by neighboring sulfur, oxygen and nitrogen atoms are displayed in the diagrams above.
- In most of the cases involving heteroatom assistance, an "onium" intermediate is formed, in which the heteroatom is charged.
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Welfare Reform
- Before the Welfare Reform Act of 1996, welfare assistance was "once considered an open-ended right," but welfare reform converted it "into a finite program built to provide short-term cash assistance and steer people quickly into jobs. " Prior to reform, states were given "limitless" money by the federal government, increasing per family on welfare, under the 60-year-old Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program.
- Still, most states offer basic assistance, such as health care, food stamps, child care assistance, unemployment, cash aid, and housing assistance.
- It encourages states to require some sort of employment search in exchange for providing funds to individuals, and imposes a five-year lifetime limit on cash assistance.
- The bill restricts welfare from most legal immigrants and increased financial assistance for child care.
- The federal government also maintains an emergency $2 billion TANF fund to assist states that may have rising unemployment.
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Development Assistance
- Although assistance to nations with grave economic problems evolved slowly, the United States in April 1948 launched the Marshall Plan to spur European recovery from the war.
- President Harry S Truman (1944-1953) saw assistance as a means of helping nations grow along Western democratic lines.
- In the 1980s, USAID was still providing assistance in varying amounts to 56 nations.
- Increasingly, it emphasizes food and nutrition; population planning and health; education and human resources; specific economic development problems; famine and disaster relief assistance; and Food for Peace, a program that sells food and fiber on favorable credit terms to the poorest nations.
- Proponents of American foreign assistance describe it as a tool to create new markets for American exporters, to prevent crises and advance democracy and prosperity.