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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"Government Assistance"”.
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Housing Challenges of Asian and Pacific Island Elders in the United States from 1995 to 2007
Limited government supports under the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) of 1996 could cause low-income immigrants to struggle with housing affordability. Thus, this study examined housing challenges of Asian and Pacific Island elders, focusing on government …
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The Case for Intersectionality: An Intersectional Look At Disability in The Labor Market
… for individual characteristics, receipt of government assistance, and several state-level policies and characteristics. This dissertation also estimates the number of years over the working life span that an individual can expect to be employed while disabled. Findings show that disparities …
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Encouraging Organic Agriculture: The Effects of Conversion Subsidies
… availability of conversion subsidies. Without government assistance, most small-scale farmers are not sufficiently motivated to switch to organic production due to the high initial costs involved in transitioning. Further, increased institutional support could facilitate organic adoption and …
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A Comparative Analysis of Two Community Housing Development Organizations in St. Louis, Missouri
A radical transition in the 1980's saw government assistance for developers of new or substantially rehabilitated inner city housing give way to programs which focused mainly on tenant and rental assistance. The competition for scarcer development dollars became so intense that nonprofit developers …
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Willingness to help: how the portrayal and perception of a wrongfully convicted individual affects people’s willingness to help exonerees
… suggesting Canadians would be supportive of this government assistance for exonerees (Angus Reid, 1995; Clow, Blandisi, et al., 2012), Canada rarely compensates or provides them with reintegration services (Schuller et al., 2021). Two studies were conducted to examine how emotions and empathic …
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Barriers to Services for Transitional Age Youth
… current rates of homelessness, the dependency of government assistance programs, and mental health services increase for the TAY population, the need for improved services is apparent. Study results indicated five distinct themes pertaining to youth impediments and the need for foster system …
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Evaluating Participation In the Food Stamp Program Among Individuals In the New York City Medicaid Population
… (FSP), the nation's largest food and nutrition assistance program. More than 2.6 million individuals are enrolled in a Medicaid plan, which provides low-income individuals with public health insurance. Despite similar income and resource eligibility requirements of the two programs, many …
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Why Do Banks Participate in a FDIC Failed Bank Auction? A study on both winning and non-winning bidders’ performance
… mergers, especially ones with failed targets and government assistance. In our study, we adopt multiple approaches to study two main questions. First, we are interested to learn if mergers lead to real economic synergies for combined entities using operating measures. We adopt Propensity Score …
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The effect of cash constraints on smallholder farmer revenue
… analyze the effectiveness of two common forms of government intervention, storage and loan provision. We fully characterize market equilibrium conditions under the base scenario of no government intervention, analyzing how price conditions, number of farmers, and severity of cash constraints …
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Assessing Crime Prevention by Tanzania Police Force: A Case of Chamwino - Dodoma
… recognized that, community Policing and government assistance, spirit of commitment to some police officers and good administrative system of the Force, were analysed as the causes that influence achievement to prevent crime. Also the findings in objective two picked out the indicators …
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Assessing Crime Prevention by Tanzania Police Force: A Case of Chamwino - Dodoma
… recognized that, community Policing and government assistance, spirit of commitment to some police officers and good administrative system of the Force, were analysed as the causes that influence achievement to prevent crime. Also the findings in objective two picked out the indicators …
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Essays analysing historical cases of economic intervention by national governments
… of these essays is to critically assess the government economic interventionist policies which these market failures called forth. The first essay attempts to establish whether, or not, the Japanese government of the Meiji period was constrained from attaining Pareto-optimal levels of …
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Essays analysing historical cases of economic intervention by national governments
… of these essays is to critically assess the government economic interventionist policies which these market failures called forth. The first essay attempts to establish whether, or not, the Japanese government of the Meiji period was constrained from attaining Pareto-optimal levels of …
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Deepening Our Understanding of Disaster Displacement: A Phenomenological Study of Sulphur, Louisiana
… increasingly dangerous climate-related hazards, government assistance is needed to provide health care, basic necessities, and housing. Sustainable recovery requires long-term support networks that can identify and aid those most vulnerable to disaster impacts. Keywords: disaster, displacement, …
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Financial agents, water quality and riparian forest buffers
… and non-market (conservation) benefits and government assistance. When market (financial) benefits exclusively are considered, only 46% think that buffers are a net asset. The Spearman Rank Correlation method indicated a linear association between the professionals' knowledge level of …
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A theory of sustained cooperation with evidence from irrigation institutions in Nepal
… the relevance of perceived fairness relates to government assistance; flexibility is bounded by the resource's technical needs; and the relationship of flexibility to institutional performance depends on perceived fairness. These patterns appear in the original data, the newly collected data, …
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The effect of HIV/ AIDS on elderly women in the rural areas of Zambia: A case study of Chongwe Rural
… played by formal support systems such as the Government, NGOs, and the Church in providing assistance to these elderly women. The study was undertaken between August and September 2005. The study utilized the qualitative research technique. This approach was used so that the researcher could …
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The effect of HIV/ AIDS on elderly women in the rural areas of Zambia: A case study of Chongwe Rural
… played by formal support systems such as the Government, NGOs, and the Church in providing assistance to these elderly women. The study was undertaken between August and September 2005. The study utilized the qualitative research technique. This approach was used so that the researcher could …
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Language of Exclusion: A Mixed Method Evaluation of Text Complexity on Comprehension Within Selected U.S. Government Food Assistance Application Materials
… 60 years of plain writing advocacy calling for government agencies to increase the clarity of official communication, the Plain Writing Act (PWA) of 2010 codified the incorporation of plain language in any federal government document for pubic use. However, no extensive evaluation of government …
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