Its charitable works reach into many of our poorest neighborhoods -- staffing hospitals for the indigent, schools for those whose public institutions have failed them, and soup kitchens for the homeless and destitute.
Supply and demand, by itself, does not evaluate when there might be concerns that override efficiency in particular cases -- feeding impoverished school children, for instance, making sure that indigent elderly have shelter, providing inoculations where needed, internalizing the cost of industrial waste dumped into our air and seas.
The black church provided for the indigent and created schools, universities, banks, insurance companies, and other institutions.
That's because interest-rate manipulation might well have kept your town or state from hiring firefighters or teachers, from paving roads or paying for indigent care or after-school programs for your kids -- adding to the human suffering of the economic collapse these same banks caused in the first place.
Forstmann has given away upwards of $200 million to the Children's Scholarship Fund, which offers free private-school tuition to indigent kids willing and able to do the work it takes to stay in school.
All school children and indigent adults with significant vision impairment were provided with their assistive devices at no cost, subsidised by the sale to others.
100 years ago, Milton S. Hershey launched a school for orphaned and indigent boys who otherwise would not have afforded to have an education.
After my time with Teach for America, I obtained my J.D. from Yale Law School, spent a fellowship year representing children in special education and disciplinary proceedings in public schools, spent several years representing indigent defendants in criminal proceedings, and now work for a nonprofit, where I advocate for the expansion of early care and education services.
He continued promoting secular and comprehensive (mental, moral, working, physical) training, school accessibility, free education for the indigent and equal education of boys and girls.
It drove up inmate populations and corrections costs and forced the states to choose between building prisons and building schools or funding medical care for the indigent.
Though the report made a point of commending the hospital for its service to the indigent and favored having it remain part of the medical school, it also concluded, "Were losses at University Hospital to mount, the university and the state should consider a separate ownership structure".
