He became indigent and frequented Williams Park, a downtown hub for dealers, junkies and transients.
He became indigent and frequented Williams Park, a downtown hub for dealers, junkies, and transients.
"I hate the idea that I'd become indigent if I can't even get unemployment anymore," Mr. Ballesteros said, fighting back tears as he described his unpaid medical bills and his struggles to afford his cholesterol medication.
It's a budget that guarantees that most Americans will have to work harder, longer and with less support from the government, especially if they become indigent or disabled.
Or if no longer a heavy father, an artistic practice becomes an indigent distant relative, reduced to parading for tourists in the bazaar: who'd join him?
As both a deputy mayor for criminal justice during the Koch administration and in such private-sector positions as founding director of the Vera Institute of Justice, Mr. Sturz has nudged into being a bail-reform project for the indigent that became a national model, aid for the city's crime victims, services for mentally ill and addicted offenders, and the award-winning Midtown Community Court.
Motley says the insurance company's unfair treatment of her father inspired her to study law, and after graduating from Marquette Law School, she became a public defender, representing indigent clients accused of drug-related crimes, gun violations, and murder.
He became known for his concern for indigent patients, and spoke often of the need for legal and safe abortions.
It later became a workhouse and prison for indigents and prostitutes, then a Gestapo-run camp for political prisoners and, following the war, a reformatory for women.
But these institutions, particularly the state hospitals, soon became repositories for society's unwanted and adrift, alcoholics, the indigent and vagrant, mixed in with those experiencing psychosis and severe mood problems.
State governments, burdened with health care expenses for the indigent and elderly, and lacking the ability to run operating deficits, became even more interested in this approach [ 11].
