To explore the extent and nature of disability among parents in families receiving payments under the State program for aid to needy children and to determine what can and should be done to restore to self-maintenance the largest possible number, California developed the project described in the folbowing pages. The philosophy on which the project was based, its methods cf operating, and its va...

The federally administered Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program, created by the provisions of the 1972 Amendments to the Social Security Act, established uniform national eligibility criteria and payment standards for the Nation’s needy population who, in addition to being poor, were also aged, blind, or disabled. It replaced the previous Stateadministered programs of Old-Age Assistance (...

Arguing that food security management belongs to the core of government tasks and has been since Biblical times, we assess current practices in this domain and their effect on local governance, with special reference to the food aid operations of the World Food Program. Within the food security management task, we distinguish three basic elements: (i) entitlement: to provide income entitlements...

terms of expenditure. The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) program, an earnings subsidy program, which provides tax credits to low-income families with earnings, is third largest. The Food Stamp program, which provides food coupons to the poor, and programs for subsidized housing for the poor are fourth and fifth, respectively. The TANF program is, as the table shows, only the sixth largest prog...

Objectives: The study aims to highlight the relationship between Islamic faith and social welfare impact of believing in God Last Day combating poverty, fragility vulnerability. Methods: relied on descriptive-analytical approach by tracing descent Holy Quran Meccan period, focusing essential information related its welfare. Additionally, reasercher reviewed compared opinions scientists. researc...

Why do people support economic redistribution? Hypotheses include inequity aversion, a moral sense that inequality is intrinsically unfair, and cultural explanations such as exposure to and assimilation of culturally transmitted ideologies. However, humans have been interacting with worse-off and better-off individuals over evolutionary time, and our motivational systems may have been naturally...

In the context of our work in developmental robotics regarding robot-human caregiver interactions, in this paper we investigate how a "baby" robot that explores and learns novel environments can adapt its affective regulatory behavior of soliciting help from a "caregiver" to the preferences shown by the caregiver in terms of varying responsiveness. We build on two strands of previous work that ...