Helping the Needy

The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program

The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program was created in 1996 from what was previously named the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program. The TANF program is intended to serve low-income families, primarily those with only a single parent present, as did the AFDC program. The TANF program is distinguished from AFDC by strong work requirements, time limits on rece...

Medical Care for Needy Persons in Maryland

I T IS now 10 years since Maryland inaugurated a program of medical care for needy persons, administered through the State and county health departments. One other State, Washington, formerly provided medical care for the needy through its health department but recently transferred responsibility for the program to the welfare department, where it had originally been located. Starting in July 1...

Welfare for all--or only for the needy?

Over a decade ago, an editorial in The Lancet voiced serious concern over the degree to which epidemiology had abandoned its traditional emphasis on issues of obvious importance to public health. Journal papers were increasingly occupied with refi ning statistical methods to address individual risk factors on a biological and molecular level. Appealing as the potential of molecular epidemiology...

Edocation as a faktor helping the spread of eslam

Helping a Victim or Helping the Victim: Altruism and Identifiability

Although it has been claimed that people care more about identifiable than statistical victims, demonstrating this “identifiable victim effect” has proven difficult because identification usually provides information about a victim, and people may respond to the information rather than to identification per se. We show that a very weak form of identifiability—determining the victim without prov...