human services
programs or facilities for meeting basic health, welfare, and other needs of a society or group, as people who are poor, sick, or elderly.
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How to use human services in a sentence
On Thursday, the Senate narrowly confirmed Xavier Becerra to be health and human services secretary, rejecting claims from the right that he is hostile toward Catholics and other Christians.
Xavier Becerra is the victim of the right’s distortion of Catholicism | Duncan Hosie | March 19, 2021 | Washington PostMeanwhile, smaller charities have seen their revenue dip by nearly a fifth, with donations to human services organizations dropping by 10 percent last quarter in recent estimates.
Similarly, the Department of Health and human services could not provide investigators with that information.
They pick up Ben from human services, but only after guessing which of two similar-looking babies he was.
Not sure if it would be surgeon general or something else within HHS (Health and human services).
There was only one problem: The numbers were bogus, according to the U.S. Department of Health and human services.
The U.S. Department of Health and human services recently that an unaccompanied minor from Central America has the H1N1 flu.
If we had here to do with utility as connected with human services, I should not contest this principle.
Harmonies of Political Economy | Frdric BastiatIt is a different thing, however, to consider human services as wealth of an ephemeral kind at the moment they are rendered.
The Principles of Economics | Frank A. FetterBut the results of most human services may be seen to rest, at least temporarily, in some material form.
The Principles of Economics | Frank A. FetterThe scarcity of human services, relative to wants, is the fundamental fact in the problem of wages.
The Principles of Economics | Frank A. FetterThe agents of production compose two great species, material goods and human services.
The Principles of Economics | Frank A. Fetter
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