They received no resettlement assistance (years later, they received small amounts of compensation).
Significantly more Dominicans than African Americans were enrolled in the study after 31 December 2001 (χ = 5.4, p = 0.02), and significantly more subjects reported receipt of public assistance year-by-year, 2000 2006 (χ = 13.5, p = 0.04).
At a March 12 hearing, Carmen Carvajal, a Region 5 social worker, testified about a 7-year-old blind first grader at P.S. 42 in Queens who did not get assistance all year.
About four million families receive such assistance each year, according to the Energy Department, which works with the Department of Health and Human Services.
Pressure to prevent logging in the Cardamoms has been coming from international aid agencies and development banks, which provide Cambodia with about $500 million in assistance each year.
The Red Cross estimates that about 30 million people receive its assistance each year, though the disaster-filled headlines of recent weeks seem to portend an even busier 2008.
Of the approximately 1,200 people who apply for assistance each year, about 200 to 300 have incomes or assets exceeding the limits.
Under the plan, families or individuals with a maximum annual income of $50,000 and assets of $200,000 would qualify for up to $4,000 in state and federal assistance each year.
UN and aid agencies say hundreds of thousands in the Irrawaddy Delta still need assistance a year after Cyclone Nargis.
In addition to suffering massive property and livelihoods losses, the Tonga people have benefited hardly at all from the dam and, resettled in arid areas, they now depend on humanitarian assistance every year, turning them into development refugees (Weist 1995).
She had a back-up plan - an eldercare package offered by her employer, giving up to 20 days assistance a year from a care worker who could take her mother to her clinic.
