assistance
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Tax revenue has grown steadily in recent years but has failed to keep up with ballooning costs in areas including the city’s rental-voucher program and public assistance.
During a panel discussion on humanitarian assistance, Spoljaric said it was up to leaders to make such laws a political prority and adopt a protective interpretation of the laws, rather than a permissive one.
From Barron's
“The man-made humanitarian crisis has been getting worse for many years,” Jeremy Lewin, a State Department official for foreign assistance and humanitarian affairs, told reporters last week.
Instead 'Olympic Solidarity' provides assistance to all NOCs for athlete development programmes, particularly those with the greatest need.
From BBC
But the clinic, which used to give them for free, now had none to offer; and aid cuts since the U.S. froze assistance last year meant it was unlikely to get them anytime soon.
From Los Angeles Times
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