To be sure, the real solution to poverty isn't cash handouts, but economic growth.

Roosevelt was convinced that jobs were much better for everyone than cash handouts.

Michael has also alleged that a corrupt police officer took £10,000 cash handouts from him.

And what happens after the cash handouts run out, West Africa analysts ask?

Gunmen have rushed in for their cash handouts, but brought with them far fewer guns than were expected.

In the first week after the cash handouts ended, the newscasts dropped back immediately to their regular ratings.

'Cash handouts help in the short term, and are essential to alleviate hardship.

In San Francisco at least, living on government cash handouts will soon get harder, for the just and the unjust.

Despite their wealth, each receives a hefty cash handout from the Civil List.

He has also given food stamps and free medicine to the poor, as well as cash handouts to the elderly.

When that help is not forthcoming, a low-wage job fails to alleviate poverty, just as cash handouts failed.

Ahmadinejad is offering voters cash handouts, called "justice shares," which are reportedly the equivalent of sixty dollars.

It has by far the most to spend, for cash handouts and for gifts such as towels and cigarette lighters.

The town had long benefited from Colonel Gaddafi's largesse in the form of cash handouts, new housing and other benefits.

Driven by the big cash handouts and nationwide exposure, competitive fishing tournaments, for better or worse, are booming for everything from marlin to walleye.

All the way along, there will be Egypt's traditional electoral mayhem: thugs, intimidation, cash handouts, ballot stuffing, strong-arm local families, clan and mosque.

During campaigns, potential voters here are plied with everything from cash handouts to colorful cloth, called chitenge, and that is as true as ever in this year's campaign.

It wasn't only the poor who were stuck on welfare; so were liberals who wanted to reduce poverty but found themselves defending an unpopular program of cash handouts.

The law, which reversed six decades of social welfare policy and ended the idea of free cash handouts for the poor, was widely seen as a victory for conservative ideas.

Just before Mr. Goh set the election date earlier this month, the government put in place a $6.2 billion stimulus package that includes tax rebates, construction projects and cash handouts.

The billions he is giving to banks and businesses would have been diverted into the pockets of consumers, through benefit bonuses, employment reliefs, scrappage schemes and, if need be, cash handouts.

On 8 May, protests outside prime minister office turned violent when ex-rebels, which protested on the non-payment of the promised cash handout by the government, attacked the office in Tripoli.

"I try to get some money by begging," said Pang Jin Chul, 20, lingering near a church that he hoped would provide food, a small cash handout and possibly a place to stay.

Last year the Liberal Democrat peer Lord Kirkwood told fellow peers his "blood ran cold" at the idea that cash handouts might be scrapped in favour of food and furniture banks.

Street money is an American political tactic in which local party officials are given legal cash handouts by an electoral candidate's campaign in exchange for the official's support in turning out voters on election day.