41.   Congressional efforts to cut Medicare, Medicaid and student assistance programs exacerbate the pain.

42.   Controversy is not new to the tenant assistance program.

43.   Dotson said she wanted to see better police training, competency standards, field monitoring and employee assistance programs for officer burnout.

44.   Dougherty is president of Priority Consulting, a Glen Ridge, N.J., company that helps run employee assistance programs, or EAPs, for companies.

45.   Each state would receive a fixed amount of federal money to design and run its own cash assistance program, replacing Aid to Families With Dependent Children.

46.   Educational assistance programs have been around for some time.

47.   Employee assistance programs, generally offered through contracts with outside providers, typically offer mental health and substance-abuse counseling.

48.   Each state has a drug assistance program to provide prescription drugs to low-income people who are not covered by private health insurance or Medicaid.

49.   Federal Emergency Management Agency officials began walking door-to-door informing Austin flood victims of assistance programs.

50.   Even Project Hope, the biggest educational assistance program in the country, sponsors only one-third of eligible children in the poor counties where it operates.