Mr. Pollack concedes there is immediate stress on a system whose configuration is based on old assumptions as to where the needy live.
About $325,000 poured in from Albany, from Little Rock, from Yuma — more than enough to build the Gabrielle Giffords Family Assistance Center, an office at the food bank where the needy can get information about food stamps and other benefits.
"The money ought to follow where the neediest students are.
That is where the Neediest Cases Fund came to his aid.
One day you're sweet and needy, where I feel like you'd cuddle up in my lap if you were smaller.
Dr. Salchow and his wife recently moved to New Haven, where he works with needy children through a Yale University program.
The film spends too much time with Mr. O'Brien and his team backstage, where he is the needy focus of attention at all times.
And business with North Korea serves a domestic goal: it helps employment and incomes in needy Jilin Province, where an estimated two million ethnic Koreans live.
For many would-be claimants, Welfare had become a ragged system where, however deserving or needy, they weren't poor enough to qualify for benefits, or the cash involved was too small to bother claiming.
