If the numbers were playing cards (9, 9 and Joker 0), I wonder if I could count this three card hand as having 'a pair' or 'a triple' or something else.

It's a "full house" 😜 !LOLZ

I am more of a believer that if you provide people with living conditions so that they can work and generate their own resources than that will be the best social program...

Yes, that's probably the right thing to do. Give a man a fish and nothing will change. Give a man a fishing rod and he will catch his own fish...
!PIZZA
!ALIVE