As concerned U.S. citizens, there is a social and moral obligation to donate to charities.
According to a 2007 Marketwatch article, 1 in 5 Americans in working families cannot afford their basic needs and that several of them are struggling to live on inadequate income and government aid. This means that around an astounding 41 million people in working families cannot afford health care and housing.
This study was conducted in 9 states and in the District of Columbia; it was discovered that government programs close around 2/5 of the gap between the income of a family and the costs of local goods and services. In addition, it was estimated that a family consisting of an adult and 2 children who are living in Washington D.C. would need almost $57,000 in order for them to meet their basic needs.
What this study reveals is that several families cannot afford insurance. These families are so hard pressed just to make ends meet that they can’t afford anything beyond the most basic of necessities. Additional expenses like the essential safety nets provided by insurance packages are things that, to them, are unreachable. In order to alleviate the living conditions of these individuals, affluent individuals should donate their extra funds to charities that can systematically and efficiently aid this hapless crowd.
Dennis Tamburo is a sales and business development professional with an extensive background in real estate and construction. Dennis Tamburo has donated to the South Colorado Aid Project. Dennis Tamburo has also donated to the Howard Brown Health Care Center.
It is amazing how the World came together to help the victims of the Sumatra Earthquake. Billions of dollars poured into the region and it was a Herculean Effort indeed. Even two former Presidents got together in a non-partisan funds drive to secure the help needed. And the United States brought in Cargo Ships, Helicopters and water making vessels to assist.
But what is happening now? Well some say that the region is an environmental disaster and this issue came up in an online think tank recently as Karishma in regards to the environmental disaster caused by the Indonesia Tsunami states;
“. . .and today when things have subsided there is yet no framework or system that provides some form of environmental security some assurance that a better environment can secure a better future. . .as this is my contribution to think tank, it would be great if anyone could suggest to me good reading material on environment, its importance and its effects to our lives. . .looking forward for more.!”
I see so you have a solution to the environmental disaster and wish to set up framework to insure that the people there and the environment can continue to prosper into the future and are concerned that nothing is being done? It is a problem when an issue is in the mass media and then the media subsides and the assistance goes away. We must make sure that when we rebuild areas that we are careful to insure their on-going vitality into the next period and part of that of course is making sure the environmental issues are secure. Consider this in 2006.
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