In recent months some of the leading well funded charities have begun to realise that the essentially unfunded arguments of our Centre for Accountability and Debt Relief can do more to help the poor in many of these over borrowed and criminally exploited nations.

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It would do nothing to help those too poor to pay income tax.

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Rather, it is the story of one man's struggle against homelessness (why doesn't the state do more to help the working poor?).

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He was also ahead of most do-gooders in aiming to help the poor by boosting their entrepreneurial efforts rather than by handing them welfare.

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Republicans also said they wouldn't do anything to help the economy and the middle class unless spending was cut from the very poor and elderly: proposing cuts to food stamps and Medicare.

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When I am with them, I am empathic and supportive, and I do my best to help them through their sorrows and loneliness, which they feel as acutely as the poor and the middle classes feel their heartache.

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The identity number will help the poor, who find it difficult to access public services and benefits because they do not have official records or identity.

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