Given Martin's cineaste credentials, it was no surprise Bad Eggs married loving noir-mimicry with absurd slapstick (of the Police Squad! kind), aided by its dream deadpan cast (Franklin, Micallef, Judith Lucy, Alan Brough, Bill Hunter).
The rest comes largely from Medicaid, food stamps, and other in-kind aid programs serving families in need.
FTS is a global database that records in real time all reported international humanitarian aid, including funding for NGOs, in-kind aid and private donations.
When people receive in-kind aid that doesn't reflect their priorities they often sell it to buy what they really need as, for example, 70% of Syrian refugees in Iraq have done.
Instead of in-kind aid, a family may receive an envelope of cash, a plastic card or an electronic money transfer to a mobile phone, with which they purchase what they need locally.
With a budget of $1.7 million this year (the center receives considerable facilities and in-kind aid from the New York State University system) Staller still has to fill 1,000 seats at every performance in the main stage and 370 seats in its recital hall to break even as it has these last two years.
The difference in what they can sell food or other goods for and what it costs to provide is a pure waste of limited resources and means that in-kind aid is often just an inefficient way of giving people cash.
The ancient city that both Israelis and Palestinians claim as their capital is now populated mostly by Palestinians with Israeli residence permits, religious Jews of various kinds, aid workers and foreign journalists, and is one of the country's poorest municipalities.
The majority of humanitarian assistance in Syria and worldwide is provided as in-kind aid.
Cash transfers and electronic vouchers are "low-profile" modalities that may be less likely to attract attention to beneficiaries than distribution of in-kind aid.
