Research shows that less than 10percentt of the money Americans give to charity addresses basic human needs, like sheltering the homeless, feeding the hungry and caring for the indigent sick, and that the wealthiest typically devote an even smaller portion of their giving to such causes than everyone else.
In the mid fifties, Eunice went to talk to her father about the future of the Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Foundation whose purpose was "the relief... of the indigent sick or infirm, to prevent pauperism and to promote... sanitary reforms, habits of thrift... savings and self-dependence among the poorer classes".
There, the cost of care gets picked up by state and federal taxpayers who, one way or another, cover the tab for indigent, uninsured sick people.
Members are eligible for scholarships for graduate nursing school, research grants, and small grants if they are sick or indigent.
In 1960 he moved to NYC where he continued his true service of a much more unorthodox nature, and he dedicated his life to serving prisoners, the sick and indigent, often taking confessions in bars and other non-traditional locations.
It could put its enormous resources behind tried-and-true Jesus stuff like helping the sick and indigent, rather than waging battles against nuns who don't hate gays enough.
In the defense's opening, E. Scott Morvillo, a lawyer for Mr. Rosen, described him as a "crusader for the sick and indigent who dedicated his entire life" to establishing and maintaining not-for-profit hospitals that served "those who needed it most".
In both the Hebrew and Christian scriptures, there are literally hundreds of injunctions to welcome strangers, feed orphans and widows, and care for the sick and indigent so that justice -- justice, mind you, not charity -- can roll down like living waters.
Without much in the way of schools, hospitals, or transportation, the people of the Ninth Ward depended on each other, organizing mutual-aid and benevolent societies to care for the sick and the indigent.
Retirement responsibility for all but the sick and the indigent will be passed back to individuals.
In outpatient care, responsiveness was rated worse by the less educated, the sicker and the indigent.
