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...livable wage. We can give her a tax break by expanding the Earned Income Tax and Child Tax Credits. We can ensure that parents all across this country don?t have to choose between the job they need and the heartache of leaving their child in substandard care by guaranteeing access to quality child care. And when hardship hits when a job is lost, we should expand eligibility for Unemployment Insurance so families don't slip deeper into trouble...
...devastation is a reminder that for all of its explosive economic growth, parts of China are still painfully poor. While cities like Shanghai boast some of the world's tallest and most advanced buildings, rural areas are often plagued by substandard structures. During the 1990s China updated its building codes to standards that approximate those of the U.S. and Europe, says Greg Wong, a Hong Kong-based structural engineer who has worked in China since 1985. But those standards aren't always met, he says, especially in the countryside. "If they spent more money and build buildings half as good...
...past few years, diseases such as dengue fever, viral hepatitis, tuberculosis, malaria and pneumonia "have returned in force or have developed a stubborn resistance to drugs," according to a report on health care in India by consultancy PricewaterhouseCoopers. "This troubling trend can be attributed in part to substandard housing, inadequate water, sewage and waste management systems, a crumbling public health infrastructure, and increased air travel." Pylore Krishnaier Rajagopalan, who was head of the government Vector Control Research Centre in the southern city of Pondicherry between 1975 and 1990, blames policies that concentrate on the latest scientific techniques and not enough...
...been at the center of debate among parents and committee members regarding the effectiveness of his administration and the length and nature of his pending contract.“Anyone else would have been fired by now,” said Dionne. “His performance is substandard.”Walser, supporting the superintendent, has in the past called it “foolhardy” not to continue Fowler-Finn’s contract. “A few members want him to leave,” said Walser. “The timing of this...
...Here’s what he should have said: “Harvard today is good but it is not great. Her students are ambitious, but they are aimless. Subject to substandard undergraduate education, her students are incentivized to maximize their GPAs. Her professors are not incentivized to teach...