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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He will donate all royalties from the album to Feeding America, a major national charity supporting food banks for 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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It is also true that once he was king, Richard made a great effort to promote justice to the poor and needy, stabilize royal finances and contain public disorder.

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Indiscriminate cuts in welfare would run against the imperative of a socially fair package, since most of the spending goes in state pensions to workers in general, and to the poor and needy.

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Francis, who was inaugurated as the new head of the world's 1.2 billion Catholics on Tuesday, has made some changes since taking the helm -- most notably by adopting a simpler, personal style and calling for the Church to focus on serving the poor and needy.

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He has the advantage of being known for his concern for the poor and the needy.

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Medicaid programs attempt, mostly through heroic individual efforts, to serve a desperately needy population of the poor, chronically ill, mentally unstable, and recklessly pregnant.

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