Sentence examples for poor veterans from inspiring English sources

If this vote stands, not only will 3.8 million poor veterans, older people and children face food insecurity, but this vote also contributes to the health care crisis.

It asks for pensions for veterans of the First World War with incomes of under $2,400 (if single) or $3,600 (if married) — that is, only for poor veterans.

While transferring assets to qualify for the pension is not illegal under current rules, Congressional officials and veterans groups say the practice undermines the purpose of the pension system — aiding poor veterans — and burdens federal spending at a time of deep budget cuts.

"Look, we give those poor, poor veterans a way to make money!" they can say.

I put these poor veterans through the gauntlet of every FDA-approved medicine on the market to try to reduce some of their PTSD symptoms.

The people that make up the 47percentt are a pretty diverse bunch -- they are the elderly (most of whom paid into the system all their lives), the working poor, veterans and students working their way through college.

At Eastern Kentucky, administrators turned to him for suggestions for curing poor veteran retention rates: "What worked for me, I told them, was writing".

The V.A. has long focused on caring for recent combat veterans, those with service-connected disabilities or special needs and the poorest veterans.

Early this year researchers from the Department of Veterans Affairs and four universities used such data to determine that poor, older veterans are up to twice as likely as non-veterans to be homeless.

The Radical Rich consider all of them -- the disabled, the elderly, poor people, veterans -- the Other.

The federal government has been involved in the health care industry through federal programs for the poor, the Veterans Administration, and Medicare; it has regulated insurance through an alphabet-soup of programs, such as COBRA, HIPPA, and ERISA; and it has long worked in partnership with the states to provide insurance and care to the needy through Medicaid.