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Medicaid, America's main health-care scheme for the poor, does not cover childless adults in most states, no matter how destitute they are.
ECONOMIST: Food stamps
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The current Armed Forces pension scheme has two main sections, for those who joined between 1975 and 2005 and those who joined afterwards.
BBC: Pension reforms for military outlined by MoD
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It is very important not to lose sight of the main purpose of a pension scheme, which is to provide income in retirement.
BBC: Ask the expert: Pensions and property
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The same problem haunts the main forest-related certification scheme, for timber.
ECONOMIST: Western consciences can do only so much to conserve forests
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In another scheme to resurface the main route for vehicles in the square, sub-contractors are having to relay the road surface after problems were identified.
BBC: Caernarfon Castle Square parking ban for many motorists
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The main cause for the slide seems to be his shelving of plans for an emissions-trading scheme to fight climate change, seen as one of his administration's main goals.
ECONOMIST: A rare rich-world leader for whom a budget brings good news
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The US firm has been holding talks with independent trustees and its main creditors since October in an effort to safeguard the scheme.
BBC: NEWS | Business | T&N workers face pension crisis
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Mr Hardcastle, of consultants Kellogg Brown and Root, said the main recommendation was for an "area-wide" charging scheme which would use satellite technology to monitor the journeys of all motorists and charge them per mile.
BBC: Tolls 'would curb M25 traffic jams'
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Luckier villagers, from all the main caste-groups, have got their names down for another scheme, Antodaya Anna Yojana, which provides 35kg of cut-price rice a month.
ECONOMIST: India's languishing countryside
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Approved in late 1995, the regeneration scheme was anchored around the resuscitation of Shields Road, the main shopping centre in the east of Newcastle, which had become run down.
ECONOMIST: Newcastle: The best laid plans | The
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That is why the designer of the scheme, Portman Capital, is stressing that it believes the main argument for privatising in this unprecedented way is that it would actually maximise proceeds for the Exchequer, in the short term at least - which is not as paradoxical as it may seem.
BBC: Bank casino capitalism for all