As a result, millions of Americans cannot find affordable financing for their basic credit needs.
For enhancing impact, credit needs to be complemented with access to and utilization of other basic social services such as primary schools.
As Americans felt pressure from high gas prices, increased unemployment rates, soaring prices at the supermarket and declining home values, theyre relying on credit cards to pay for basic daily needs.
The credit-card-sized chip contains everything a basic computer needs but sells for just £32 and is highly programmable.
If the state pension were broadly sufficient to meet pensioners' basic needs, the pension credit introduced by Gordon Brown to help the poorest among them would wither on the vine.
Several programs have provided financial assistance in different ways e.g. Every Child Matters - tax credits to cover childcare costs, First 5 California - health insurance enrolment assistance and provision of basic family needs (food, clothing and housing).
Thus, to the extent that families are able to meet their basic needs using accumulated wealth, credit, or other sources, measures based on income will likely misrepresent families' situations [4], [23], [25].
These are basic human needs.
Consider water, that most basic of needs.
They are deprived of basic social needs.
