Word: aid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Term bills sent out two weeks ago billed all students for the entire cost of their tuition--$16,802 a person this semester--without deducting the amount of students' expected financial aid packages...
...held every summer at the Methodist church in my hometown. Kids would gather in the musty sanctuary for songs featuring hand gestures that seemed, for our brand of Methodism, dangerously close to dancing. We played Bible tag, memorized the books of the Old Testament and drank gallons of Kool-Aid out of waxy paper cups. Our teachers entertained us so well that we scarcely noticed that with every Popsicle-stick ark they helped us build, they were molding our little souls...
...spent a week back at V.B.S. in my hometown this summer, happy to see the little church being host to 65 kids each evening from 6 to 8 (a modern accommodation to busy daytime schedules). The kids still sing and do lessons and crafts, and the Kool-Aid still flows. Thirty adults, all with jobs and families, volunteer their time to help teach in the program, which is offered at no charge to any child who walks in the door...
...look at Haiti. In 1994 Haitians were dancing in the streets after U.S. troops restored democracy. Not anymore. Political squabbling has led to government paralysis, and Haiti's PRESIDENT RENE PREVAL suspended Parliament in January and rules by decree. Although donor countries pledged more than $1 billion in aid, the latest U.N. report notes that $570 million still hasn't been handed over because Haiti lacks the ministerial staff to draft programs for using the money. The report points out that 4% of Haiti's population still owns 66% of the country's resources, and annual income averages...
Cutbacks in Medicare spending put into place by the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 put a heavy strain on hospitals that depend on federal aid...