There have been brilliant accounts of what it is like to live on benefits, impoverished and stigmatised, but not enough emphasis on the fact that most of the budget goes to pensioners and those in work.
It also includes this rejoinder: "This is, obviously, a far cry from clinical programs designed to provide educational opportunities while benefiting impoverished or underprivileged segments of society for which legal services are not readily available".
It chiefly benefits not impoverished living artists, but the relations of rich dead ones.
Sadly, some states continue to deny social welfare benefits to impoverished citizens with drug felony convictions ("Unfair Punishments," editorial, March 17).
We argued that, contrary to received wisdom, this practice was a boondoggle for private bank creditors and provided very little benefit to impoverished debtors.
The Peruvian government has issued well over a million property titles to the great benefit of impoverished families.As the UN report points out, awarding titles is not always easy.
In a speech here, the president, Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, said he would carry out reforms over the coming decade to ensure that his country's oil revenues would be used to benefit its impoverished people.
Anticipating huge aid and investment to develop Burma's stunted infrastructure, Aung San Suu Kyi said she hoped foreign firms would invest cautiously and transparently, so the influx of money could benefit the impoverished masses.
Bush-raised Ned, the son of an Irish convict father and Irish mother, was a man whose outrage against British colonial authority inspired him to steal cattle and sheep, kill three policemen, and rob banks for the benefit of impoverished Irish sympathizers.
