The measure includes ten billion dollars for education and sixteen billion for Medicaid, the joint state-federal government medical program for the poor.

VOA: special.2010.08.12

It will also permit millions more to receive free coverage through the Medicaid program for the poor.

VOA: special.2010.03.24

About sixteen million people will be added to Medicaid, the government health plan for the poor.

VOA: special.2010.03.26

In Congress, Miss Jordan spoke for the poor, for women, for African-Americans and Latin Americans.

VOA: special.2010.05.09

And that health insurance is tax-funded, particularly for the poor, so that what happens is the insurance now pays the cost that the people would have paid previously out of their own pockets."

VOA: special.2010.11.24

Fauquier Hospital is also bracing for cuts in payments from Medicaid, a government program that funds healthcare for the poor.

VOA: standard.2010.02.25

Germany -- like most of Europe -- has a broad safety net: benefits for the poor and unemployed, universal health care and good pensions.

VOA: standard.2010.06.16

For example,fake identity cards are sometimes used to take away subsidized food grains meant for the poor and which are then sold for profit.

VOA: standard.2009.09.24

The completion rate is lower than for almost any other wealthy country, and worst for poor and minority students.

VOA: special.2009.09.10

He was a writer who used all his energy to make the world a better place for poor people.

VOA: special.2010.08.01

And the plan calls for one hundred billion dollars a year in aid to poor nations to deal with climate change.

VOA: special.2009.12.26

This person is very poor and only has enough money for the most important things in life,like food.

VOA: special.2010.06.20

But for many of the world's poor, finding a good way to keep food cool is difficult.

VOA: special.2009.02.09

There are still some public housing apartments for poor people, but many fewer than in the past.

VOA: special.2009.04.27

Yet in the south,for example, support for the protesters is low even among the poor.

VOA: special.2010.05.22