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In the United States, an entitlement program is a type of "government program that provides individuals with personal financial benefits (or sometimes special government-provided goods or services) to which an indefinite (but usually rather large) number of potential beneficiaries have a legal right ... whenever they meet eligibility conditions that are specified by the standing law that ...
The United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund - also known by its acronym UNJSPF in English or CCPPNU in French- was established in 1949 by the General Assembly of the United Nations to provide retirement, death, disability and related benefits for staff of the United Nations and the other organizations admitted to membership in the Fund.
Entitlement is commonly found in individuals with narcissistic personality disorder, possibly from how the entitled individual was raised as a child. [20] Entitlement and narcissism can lead to the feeling of unsatisfying relationships, both romantic and platonic, through the idea that they are not receiving the deserved treatment. [21]
Italy gave the world Latin culture (cultura latina). Spaniards and Portuguese had the total unentitlement to call themselves and their enslaved Native Americans and black people "latinoamericanos" in the 1850s. Now, with all the Native Americans of former Muslim Iberian colonies on the American continent being shuttled by planes, buses, trains ...
Not including Social Security and Medicare, Congress allocated almost $717 billion in federal funds in 2010 plus $210 billion was allocated in state funds ($927 billion total) for means tested welfare programs in the United States, of which half was for medical care and roughly 40% for cash, food and housing assistance.
In economics, philosophy, and social choice theory, a person's entitlement refers to the value of goods they are owed or deserve, i.e. the total value of the goods or resources that a player would ideally receive.
Entitlement theory is a theory of distributive justice and private property created by Robert Nozick in chapters 7 and 8 of his book Anarchy, State, and Utopia.The theory is Nozick's attempt to describe "justice in holdings" (Nozick 1974:150)—or what can be said about and done with the property people own when viewed from a principle of justice.