The Child Poverty Action Group said the government urgently needed to increase benefits for the most vulnerable families and make the welfare of children a priority.
The success of vitamin A supplementation and salt iodization prove that continued commitment, funding, multi-sectoral integration, collaboration, modernisation and rigorous academic scrutiny can lead to measurable improvements in coverage and, ultimately, to more benefits for the most vulnerable.
Many experts said his proposal to turn Medicaid, the health subsidy for poor people, into a block grant to states would reduce benefits for the most vulnerable members of society.
Even Republicans privately acknowledged that the redrawn Congressional landscape could hold benefits for the most vulnerable Democrats in November by easing pressure on them to vote as part of a united 60-member Democratic bloc and sparing them from providing decisive votes on contentious issues.
"Entitlement reform must provide benefits for the most vulnerable.
Here, asylum applicants are subject to years-long delays that encourage fraud while creating obstacles to obtaining permission to work and accessing social benefits for the most vulnerable.
Stop rigging the rules for making it easier to cut Social Security - benefits for the most vulnerable people in this country, while providing even more tax breaks for millionaires, billionaires and the most profitable corporations in this country.
That is a lot better than a grand bargain that makes structural cuts in benefits for the most vulnerable (by raising the eligibility age for Medicare or slowing the inflation adjustment for Social Security for example) that will be virtually impossible to reverse.
The transfer of research results into health benefits for the most vulnerable persons in malarial lands was not on the agenda.
Evidence presented at the meeting indicated that the cost of social transfers, including cash benefits for the most vulnerable, is an investment that will in a long run pay for itself and have great returns on social and economic development.
