Food banks throughout the U.S. provide nutrition to the needy. Much of the food that is distributed through food banks often originates with donors large manufacturers or distributors far from those needy clients. How that food is distributed by Feeding America, a large not-for-profit, is the subject of this essay. In 2005, Feeding America transitioned from the centralized allocation process, w...

Originally K-anonymity principle was first used in relational databases to tackle the problem of data anonymity. In earlier protection techniques K threshold is used as personalization factor for mobile users. In case, K users are not present around needy client mobile user, query can be delayed and thus it will not help to achieve the Quality of service parameter. Moreover, authors have adopte...

The article examines how people within the Church of Sweden’s leadership tried to solve ‘the problem vagrancy’ in Sweden early twentieth century. In focus are priest John Melander and deacon Josef Flinth, who advocated realized various activities for categories poor mobile men population. These interventions, defined as help-to-self-help, differentiated between ‘worthy’ ‘unworthy’ needy. public...

Participants in means-tested programs must periodically document eligibility through a recertification process. If all cases that fail are ineligible, the exact timing of this process should be irrelevant. We find later interview assignments for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), which leave less time to reschedule missed interviews, decrease success by 22 percent. The consequenc...