The Massachusetts Legal Assistance Corporation was established by the state legislature in 1983 to ensure that low -
income people with critical, non-criminal legal problems would have access to legal information, advice and representation.
Legal Advice Duty counsel are lawyers paid by the Legal Services Society to help lower
income people with their family law problems.
Statewide Legal Services has free advice for low -
income people with legal problems in Connecticut.
PHLP offers free legal advice to low -
income people with insurance problems.
MLSA continually develops innovative programming to attempt meeting the need, but because of lack of resources and staff, at the end of the day many low -
income people with meritorious legal claims have no meaningful access to justice.
Legal Aid Ontario (LAO) provides many programs and services to help low -
income people with legal issues.
According to a 2017 LSC report, 86 % of low
income people with a legal problem receive inadequate or no professional legal help.
The most interesting finding of the study was that «nearly half of all low
income people with a legal problem did not seek legal assistance because they did not know that there were laws to protect them or that relief could be obtained from the justice system.»
Study upon study has concluded that 80 to 90 percent of low and moderate
income people with legal problems are unable to obtain legal representation.
Washington State's legal aid network, known as the Alliance for Equal Justice, is comprised of statewide and specialty legal aid organizations that work collaboratively with 17 county - based volunteer attorney programs to provide low -
income people with access to justice.
Legal Aid of East Tennessee will improve access to legal information by creating a series of videos that provide low
income people with on demand guidance on matters such as orders of protection, foreclosure, and other common legal issues.
Not only do they offer veterinarian care to local animal rescues at a very affordable cost, but they also help lower
income people with their pets.
Housing assistance programs funded by HUD provide low -
income people with access to safe and affordable housing.
Moreover, Milgram recruited subjects for two of his studies by buying mailing lists, which tend to be biased in favor of high -
income people with high numbers of connections.
Syracuse — Low -
income people with illnesses may qualify for free air conditioners as part of a federal energy assistance program, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced this afternoon.
PAWS is a non-profit organization that provides animal care to low -
income persons with disabling illness (like cancer, or HIV / AIDS) as well as for senior citizens.
PAWS Co.: Denver metro area (pet food, cat litter, veterinary care assistance / volunteers to aid low -
income persons with HIV / AIDS and other debilitating illnesses)
Colorado: Ark - Valley Humane Society: Buena Vista (pet food) The Cartwright Foundation: Denver / Front Range region (veterinary care assistance) Cat Care Society: Lakewood (spay / neuter assistance, assistance for necessary veterinary medical care) Colorado Pet Pantry: Denver / Boulder - metro (pet food) Colorado State University Companion Care Fund: Fort Collins (veterinary care assistance) Colorado State University Pets Forever Program: Larimer County (various services for low - income or disabled pet - owners) Denkai Animal Sanctuary: Northern Colorado (spay / neuter and veterinary assistance) Dreampower Animal Rescue: Colorado Springs (temporary foster program) Every Creature Counts: Fort Lupton (spay / neuter assistance) The Feline Fix: Denver (spay / neuter assistance) For Pets» Sake Humane Society: Cortez (assistance for emergency veterinary care, spay / neuter and vaccination assistance) Fort Collins Cat Rescue & Spay / Neuter Clinic: Fort Collins (assistance with pet food, spay / neuter, vaccinations and financial assistance for sugeries) Friends of the Aspen Animal Shelter: Aspen (spay / neuter assistance) Good Samaritan Pet Center: Denver (spay / neuter assistance) Humane Society of Pagosa Springs: Pagosa Springs (spay / neuter assistance, assistance for necessary veterinary medical care) League for Animals and People of the Summit (LAPS):: Summit County (financial assistance to low - income families living or working in Summit County, for pet spay / neuter, life - shortening illnesses or unexpected high vet bills; discounted spay / neuter vouchers for higher incomes) MaxFund: Denver (pet food, spay / neuter assistance, vaccination assistance) PAWS Colorado: Denver metro area (pet food, cat litter, veterinary care assistance / volunteers to aid low -
income persons with HIV / AIDS and other debilitating illnesses) PetAid Colorado: Denver (assistance with veterinary care including spay / neuter) Pikes Peak Pet Pantry: Colorado Springs (pet food / litter, pet supplies, pet prescription diet assistance, and grooming assistance) SpayToday: Lakewood (low - cost spay / neuter)
TLSC has worked with Benefits Counselors and advocates to improve access to little known programs that assist low -
income persons with Medicare co-payments and deductibles.
The Section 811 Project Rental Assistance (PRA) program provides project - based rental assistance for extremely low
income persons with disabilities linked with long term services.
Not exact matches
«
With people of various
income levels increasingly divided by geography,
income inequality can worsen and the risk of social polarization — and even serious conflict — can grow,» Shiller said recently in an op - ed for Project Syndicate.
Muhammad Yunus, the Nobel Peace Prize winner who helped many impoverished
people in Bangladesh by providing them
with small loans without collateral for
income - generating activities, told «Managing Asia» the inspiration behind his accomplishments in 2012.
Low -
income Americans saw no improvements in blood pressure, their risk of heart disease, or a drop in the share of
people who smoke between 2011 and 2014 compared
with the period running from 1999 to 2004, according to a study published in the journal JAMA Cardiology.
«We thought the effects might only hold up for
people with quite a bit of disposable
income, but to our surprise, we found the same effects across the
income spectrum,» Dunn shared.
When the gap between what
people need or want, and what they can afford
with their
incomes becomes too great, credit is used to fill the gap.
Economists are loathe to make fairness comparisons except to say that
people with the same
income should be treated similarly by the government.
Mills, senior fellow
with the Harvard Business School and head of the SBA from 2009 to 2013, noted that Federal Reserve data show the
income of a typical household headed by a self - employed
person decreased by 19 percent from 2007 to 2010.
But I'm disturbed by the glee
with which so many
people celebrated the fact that he lost his job — his source of
income, his means of supporting his family — as a result of his drunken bad behaviour.
While investors will have to find stocks
with higher yields, pay more for them and take on more risk in bonds, the biggest change in a permanently low - rate world is that
people will need to set aside more of every paycheque if they want to keep the same goal for retirement
income.
By that, I mean
people with two good jobs, who are often educated professionals, who earn significant household
income — and yet are filing insolvencies.
People with investments in stocks, bonds and other securities can donate those that have appreciated in value that they've held for at least one year, resulting in significant
income - tax savings.
These were not contacts that I initiated, but, over the course of the campaign, I had
incoming contacts
with people from approximately 15 countries.
The festival offers 4,000 tickets to
people with low
incomes.
«The fact that they stuck
with the three rate - hike forecast sends a signal that at this point they're not ready to adopt a potentially more aggressive stance that a number of
people have been talking about for next year,» said Craig Bishop, lead strategist for U.S. fixed
income at RBC Wealth Management.
So, many more
people whose
income has grown
with the economy, end up caught in the AMT zone each year.
The idea behind the AMT tax was to prevent
people with very high
incomes from using special tax benefits to pay little or no tax.
As it turns out,
people with higher
income levels are more likely than those of modest means to opt for HSA - qualified health plans, because they are less concerned by the potential out - of - pocket medical costs and more interested in the tax savings, according to Fronstin at EBRI.
As I shared
with Inc., the biggest mistake we make as entrepreneurs is appealing to urban, upwardly - mobile young
people on either coast - and in living all across the country, I understand how diversity not only represents color, but also orientation,
income and needs.
These one year «deals» have raised AMT
income exemptions so that fewer
people — mostly
with incomes between $ 45,000 and $ 75,000 — will end up paying the AMT.
While Wynne's minority Liberal government said a CPP enhancement was still Ontario's «preferred approach» to strengthening the retirement
income system, the new provincial plan was touted as the next best thing as governments deal
with aging populations and
people who aren't saving enough for the future.
The world's most populous Muslim country and third - largest democracy
with 238 million
people, it has a per capita
income more than double India's, a 90 % adult literacy rate and is energy independent.
In 1969, government officials noticed that 155
people with high
incomes were legally using so many deductions and other tax breaks and that they were paying absolutely nothing in federal
income taxes.
Perhaps $ 75,000 is the threshold beyond which further increases in
income no longer improve individuals» ability to do what matters most to their emotional well - being, such as spending time
with people they like, avoiding pain and disease, and enjoying leisure.»
«An annuity
with an
income guarantee provides a safety net and allows
people to be more growth - oriented in the rest of their portfolio,» he said.
For example, Crain said, take a household in the highest -
income group
with multiple
people working jobs, several children to support, no assets, and live in an area
with a high cost of living.
The authors say that the better
people are at recognizing others» emotions the more able they are to influence others effectively and get along
with others, which eventually results in greater career success and higher
income.
Amazon hired banks last week to arrange a series of fixed -
income investor calls, a
person with knowledge of the matter said at the time.
Some
people find it an advantage to start
with a percentage of their
income rather than an actual dollar amount.
Pierlot wrote a paper for the CD Howe Institute in 2011 showing that a
person with a salary of $ 75,000 at the end of a 35 - year career would accumulate more than $ 1.4 million in savings through a defined - benefit plan (wherein the pensioner is paid a set
income based on past earnings and years of service, mostly confined to the public sector these days) compared to $ 674,711 for someone
with no pension but a maxed - out Registered Retirement Savings Plan.
People are treated fairly
with plenty of opportunity to grow and increase their
income.