Hatoyama and his DPJ have promised consumer-oriented assistance such as child-support payments to help families, and vow to overhaul structures that favor corporations.

VOA: standard.2009.08.31

Greece has been a top subject in Brussels, where European Union leaders registered support for Athens and its economic reforms this month - but offered no financial assistance.

VOA: standard.2010.02.26

"Over and over we hear from small and medium-size businesses that they can not get the financial assistance, they can't get the technical support that would grow their business.

VOA: standard.2009.11.03

"These are people who are already receiving WFP food,actually they were receiving assistance through a voucher program that we had started earlier this year in support of these people and also of the market there."

VOA: standard.2009.09.13