The phrase "assisting poor" is not entirely correct in written English; it is missing a noun to clarify the subject.
You can use it when referring to helping individuals or groups who are economically disadvantaged, but it should be modified for clarity.
Example: "The organization is dedicated to assisting the poor in our community."
Alternatives: "helping the needy" or "supporting low-income individuals".
But Samuel W. Bodman, the energy secretary, said he was against any effort to impose taxes on the oil industry as a way of assisting poor families with energy costs.
In Chicago, one of the five cities in the HUD program, the Leadership Council for Metropolitan Open Communities already had been assisting poor black residents of public housing find subsidized housing in largely white suburbs using federally funded vouchers.
Dr. Carolyn Y. Woo is President and CEO of Catholic Relief Services, the official international humanitarian agency of the Catholic community in the United States, assisting poor and marginalized communities in more than 100 countries.
The president's unwillingness to support and strengthen programs aimed at assisting poor and working class people in a time of recession is particularly perverse, especially after his campaign rhetoric to address social and economic justice issues.
For the last seven years, volunteer attorneys at the National Lawyers Guild, where I am an attorney, have been assisting poor, undocumented and unlicensed drivers whose cars have been seized.
Assisting poor families One of the programmes in focus was the Government's social cash transfer programme.
"The developed countries ought to help pay this debt by significantly limiting their consumption of non-renewable energy and by assisting poorer countries to support policies and programmes of sustainable development".
Universities such as Harvard may have the money available to improve their faculty to student ratio, allocate cash for assisting poorer students and go on competing in the building frenzy.
Policymakers frequently design self-targeting programs or target poor areas to assist poor families when income is not observed.
Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist said that his majority ruling was "not an endorsement of religious schooling," but only a means "to assist poor children in failed schools".
These donations mean that a UN target to raise $10bn this year to assist poor countries in dealing with climate change was exceeded.
