They contained several other provisions, like an extension of health benefits for indigent children, making them difficult to oppose.
The Floating Hospital was born in the 1870's, an offshoot of a series of cruises begun in 1866 by The New York Times, first for newsboys and later for indigent children.
The lawsuit originally resulted in the 1996 consent decree meant to improve health care for indigent children.
From the outset, in most of these interactions, indigent children are treated as if they were bound for trouble.
But he has taken on more and more liberal causes over the years, championing tight gun-control laws, an equal-rights bill for homosexuals and expansion of Medicaid benefits to cover indigent children, to name a few.
PhilHealth membership in the A sites was made available at no cost to all indigent children under the age of 6 years and their families.
For the first time since 1977, the City Council has awarded municipal funds to the Children's Clinic of Long Beach, a financially ailing clinic that serves indigent children from the Long Beach area.
Since her admission to the Michigan Bar in 2011, Aisa has served as an indigent children's attorney in abuse, neglect and delinquency cases, maintaining a caseload of 60 clients at any given time.
Nevertheless, to be equitable, such a selection process should instead regard children in a household as being a financial burden, which would more appropriately result in the selection of a majority of indigents living with children.
Born to a family of indigent rubber-tappers in the Amazon region, she recalled how her mother would forgo meals so that her eight children could share one egg with a bit of salt, flour and onion.
