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  2. Basic needs - Wikipedia

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    A traditional list of immediate "basic needs" is food (including water), shelter and clothing. [3] Many modern lists emphasize the minimum level of consumption of "basic needs" of not just food, water, clothing and shelter, but also transportation (as proposed in the Third talk of Livelihood section of Three Principles of the People ...

  3. Measuring poverty - Wikipedia

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    Access to basic needs is an example of a measurement that does not include wealth. Access to basic needs that may be used in the measurement of poverty are clean water, food, shelter, and clothing. [7] [8] It has been established that people may have enough income to satisfy basic needs, but not use it wisely. Similarly, extremely poor people ...

  4. Poverty threshold - Wikipedia

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    A traditional list of immediate "basic needs" is food (including water), shelter, and clothing. [26] Many modern lists emphasize the minimum level of consumption of 'basic needs' of not just food, water, and shelter, but also sanitation, education, and health care. Different agencies use different lists.

  5. Feeling thankful? This Thanksgiving, help Austin neighbors ...

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    In the first 25 years, more than $20 million has been given to local nonprofits to help their clients with basic needs such as food, shelter, clothing and medical care.

  6. Poverty - Wikipedia

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    When evaluating poverty in statistics or economics there are two main measures: absolute poverty which compares income against the amount needed to meet basic personal needs, such as food, clothing, and shelter; [2] secondly, relative poverty measures when a person cannot meet a minimum level of living standards, compared to others in the same ...

  7. Some hospitals are changing their response when babies are ...

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    Multidisciplinary care teams who know the family well will meet to determine if there are any concerns about the child not having their basic physical needs (like food, shelter and clothing) or ...

  8. Functional prerequisites - Wikipedia

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    In sociological research, functional prerequisites are the basic needs (food, shelter, clothing, and money) that an individual requires to live above the poverty line. [1] Functional prerequisites may also refer to the factors that allow a society to maintain social order .

  9. A month after quake, survivors need shelter, sanitation - AOL

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    Last month, the U.N. made a flash appeal for $397.6 million to help Syrian quake victims and $1 billion appeal for victims in Turkey to cover emergency needs, such as food, protection, education ...