The phrase
"assistance sector" refers to the part of the economy that provides help or support to people in need. This could include services like healthcare, social work, counseling, and other forms of aid.
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A new report from FPI looks at the importance of jobs in the nonprofit health care and
social assistance sector in New York City, and examines how the hardships facing the city's low - income population — the main constituency served by the nonprofit human services sector — have grown in the wake of the Great Recession of 2008 - 2009 and the weak recovery over the past three years.
ORBIT helps staff and volunteers make accurate referrals across the legal
assistance sector in Victoria.
The health care and
social assistance sector was the biggest single contributor to that growth, adding 3.6 million jobs for a gain of 22.7 %.
The healthcare and social
assistance sector will add 5 million jobs from 2012 to 2022, accounting for nearly one - third of all job growth, the Bureau of Labor Statistics projects.
· establishing a national advisory body to develop national responses to critical challenges in the legal
assistance sector;
Nonprofit Sector: According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the majority of nonprofit jobs are found in the healthcare and social
assistance sectors.
The health care and social
assistance sector is the fastest - growing industry sector in Minnesota.
Cheryl Axleby, co-chair of the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Services, agrees: «In the last generation we've had numerous seminal reports which have emphasised repeatedly that the legal
assistance sector is not resourced adequately and therefore can not provide equitable access to justice for our peoples.
Cheryl Axleby said: «The downstream costs of failing to invest in the legal
assistance sector are many.
«I am very pleased that Attorney - General George Brandis has announced that the Federal Government will continue to support the community legal
assistance sector.