In the economic sense, access to insufficient monetary means to afford goods and services becomes the immediate reason to be poor.

- to gain an edge in standardized tests over kids who can't afford such services.

Many cannot afford basic services, like high school.

Health care providers who can afford such services say they have become a necessary part of doing business.

With the Great Depression, more and more people could not afford medical services.

The end result is that those who cannot afford services, the majority, go without.

Basically the general public can"t afford appropriate legal services."

Smaller organizations that cannot afford commercial anti-spam services also depend on the list.

These include people whose income is too high for government assistance but who cannot afford needed services.

Beds have been added to the local hospital, doctors said, but workers often cannot afford services there.