This is an argument against Strong Reasons Sufficiency and Weak Reasons Sufficiency.
Your March 21 front-page article "U.S. Welfare Limit May Put Thousands in Albany's Care" identifies the substantial barriers to self-sufficiency faced by those approaching the five-year lifetime limit for the receipt of federal welfare benefits, including alcoholism and substance abuse, mental illness and poor education.
[ 11] The need for economic sufficiency has had a substantial impact on the roles of immigrant women in Canada.
For human nutrition the benefits of pollination include not just abundance of fruits, nuts and seeds, but also their variety and quality; the contribution of animal-pollinated foodstuffs to human nutritional diversity, vitamin sufficiency and food quality is substantial.
The substantial increase in hospital service-income self-sufficiency is because direct patients pay the 'cost of cataract surgery' 2500 Nepali Rupees (US$35).
And whatever the meaning of "substantial" in other contexts, the threshold for such evidentiary sufficiency is not high.
Bangladesh has made a remarkable progress in the last three decades achieving self-sufficiency in food grains production due to substantial intensification of cropping, practicing high yield crop varieties, and expansion of irrigated areas and increased use of chemical fertilizers.
Moving from a high-poverty to lower-poverty neighborhood spurs long-term gains in the physical and mental health of low-income adults, as well as a substantial increase in their happiness, despite not improving economic self-sufficiency, according to a new study published in the Sept. 20 issue of Science by researchers at the University of Chicago and partners at other institutions.
The impact of the self-sufficiency scenario for nurses is also not as substantial as the impact of the innovation and reform scenarios, indicating the nursing workforce is not overly sensitive to changes in immigration.
The resulting list reveals America's high-traffic bridges with the worst sufficiency ratings (after removing 11 that are closed or have substantial improvements either completed or expected to be completed in the next year).
As civil engineer William Ibbs put it, "Those two variables are the standard measures we use for assessing bridge risk". The resulting list reveals America's high-traffic bridges with the worst sufficiency ratings (after removing 11 that are closed or have substantial improvements either completed or expected to be completed in the next year).
