"The state has established a minimum income level that is necessary for people who are elderly and disabled to live on, but it denies that same level of assistance to some people just because they're immigrants," said Barbara Weiner, a lawyer with the Greater Upstate Law Project, one of several legal-service programs for the poor involved in the lawsuit.
Efforts to reduce the risk of HIV infection among the urban poor should take note of the fact that premarital sexual activity among the urban poor involves particularly high risk, regardless of the timing of sexual debut.
Such attitudes fail to recognise that being poor, raising children while being poor, involves choosing between less-than-ideal alternatives every single day.
End-of-life care for people with dementia can be poor, involving emergency hospital admissions, burdensome treatments of uncertain value, and undertreatment of pain and other symptoms.
Structural adjustment plans for the poor have involved privatisation, liberalisation and deregulation.
Thanks to some very big studies, such as the World Bank's Voices of the Poor, which involved 60,000 people in 60 countries, we have a pretty good idea.
But this misses the point that the rich and the poor were involved in an iterative game in which lowering turnout served the interests of the rich, even though it weakened national governance.The final issue has to do with the character of the state in which one wants to live.
The poorest were involved in subsistence farming usually on other people's land as wage laborers.
While Benjamin Berger was convicted of bilking the Department of Housing and Urban Development out of Section 8 housing subsidies destined for the poor, others were involved in the creation of a venture capital firm.
About 50% of the rich, 40% of the middle-class and only 12% of the poor households were involved in tree planting during the last 3 years.
