Predictably, he spoke about helping the needy, promoting individual responsibility, encouraging work, and tackling fraud.

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Their little effort can go a long way in helping the needy.

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Wiggins said that nonprofit organizations must meet federal guidelines and register with the state and that no such groups helping the needy or homeless were registered with Mississippi's surplus agency.

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Conservatives like to emphasize private charity is often the best solution to helping the poor and needy.

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Since taking on the role, he has focused on a message of helping the poor and needy.

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Since taking on the role, he has focused on a message of helping the poor and needy and demonstrated a simple, humble personal style.

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The latest Pew poll shows that roughly six in ten Americans want politicians to make helping the poor and needy a top priority, compared with just one in four who want to give a high priority to banning gay marriage.

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David Kennedy, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian who has taught at Stanford for more than forty years, credits the university with helping needy students and spawning talent in engineering and business, but he worries that many students uncritically incorporate the excesses of Silicon Valley, and that there are not nearly enough students devoted to the liberal arts and to the idea of pure learning.

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Britain's aid ministry, the Department for International Development, believes that by handing its grants straight to African governments and letting them get on with the job, it will strengthen the governments' sense of responsibility for helping their countries' needy and encourage their people to understand that the long-term answer to their problems is better government, rather than the generosity of foreigners.

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