The funding generally is given to groups that provide services to the poor, the elderly and children, including Citymeals-on-Wheels and the Brooklyn Children's Museum last year.
Previously, states were required to cover only specific groups of the poor, such as pregnant women.
But the U.N. forces and Food for the Poor, among other aid groups, are still fighting to make things better.
Since 1989 there have been many efforts on the part of foreign governments and international conservation groups to increase the ability of poor countries to protect their elephants.
Many consumer and campaigning groups regularly report on the poor privacy of websites and try to shame them into doing a better job.
In Canada, where the social structure is similar, a recent report concludes that microfinance has failed to get off the ground because poor borrowers are wary of forming groups of mutual liability with one another.
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Many of those laws are being challenged by groups that say they disproportionately hurt the poor, elderly and minorities.
More important, the Internet allows new partnerships between groups in rich and poor countries.
It also requires them to disaggregate their data to reveal the performance of specific groups such as Latino children or poor children.
The government, for example, issues vouchers with which the poor can buy private housing, and pays non-profit groups to run orphanages.
In societies like ours, with acute social inequalities, the lack of training in working with children from poor backgrounds and indigenous groups is a critical issue.
While smoking has fallen by half among high income groups since 1970, there has been little change among the poor.
These attitudes span all ages, ethnic groups and economic groups, but non-voters are particularly prevalent among the young, poor and minorities, studies show.
He has been widely praised outside of New York for pushing to improve the education outcome of poor and minority students, but often sparred with unions and parent groups, particularly over his emphasis on testing.
Civil society groups led by stellar activists have saved lakes and trees and fought for the poor and dispossessed.
Vast transfer programs are established to redistribute money to the poor, middle-class, rich, businesses, labor unions, lawyers, interest groups, and most everyone else.
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The reason we decided to look at industry groups is that, in general, industries which received the highest proportion of poor SOP votes in 2012 also were those that received the highest proportion of poor SOP votes in 2011.
The company's biggest problem has been its flexible-packaging business, the smallest of the three main product groups, which has been hit by fierce competition in Europe and by poor management.
Garre said yes, because the school sought diversity even within minority groups, since so many of the minority students admitted under the top 10% plan came from poor families.
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Pro-poor sustainable agriculture, Decent Employment, Empowerment of Vulnerable Groups and MDG-Driven Policy Framework, the project has improved incomes of over 600 families and impacted 5 villages of district Bahawalpur.
State regulators, who have been warning of the perils of poor investor protection rules in the JOBS Act for months, echo the sentiments of the other pro-investor groups and have sent a letter outlining what needs to be done.
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