Word: cared
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...days of duty, during which he will see little of his wife Dotti, 41, a nonpracticing registered nurse and member of the Naval Hospital Reserves, unit 519. She has been summoned to duty at Oakland Naval Hospital, 490 miles away. Dr. Millbern's mother is flying from Florida to care for the Millberns' children, a daughter, 12, and a son, 9. The Millberns' combined military pay will be $9,600 a month, less than half what Dr. Millbern had been earning. That might not be sufficient to meet monthly mortgage payments of nearly $6,000 on their newly remodeled home...
...whose entire household budgets shudder when the price of gasoline rises by a dime a gallon, whose sons and daughters join the Army to pay for their schooling, whose jobs are most vulnerable when the economy crawls toward recession. Savings and security are unaffordable luxuries; so are adequate health care, sufficient heat in the winter, a meal in a restaurant, a night at the movies...
...choices every day. "Your main recreation is television. You eat a lot of rice, pasta, potatoes and beans, maybe some green vegetables. You take the bus, or you kind of carpool it, riding with someone and helping with the gas. If you're pregnant, you don't begin prenatal care until your seventh, eighth or ninth month, because even at a public health clinic, it's $25 a visit...
...expenses that fall through the cracks land on the public. A minimum-wage worker with a car probably cannot afford insurance. If he gets in an accident, someone else ends up paying, and eventually everyone's premiums rise. Likewise, babies of women who delay seeking adequate prenatal care are at high risk for birth defects and neo- natal trouble. This in turn drives doctors' insurance premiums up and makes for higher medical costs later on. Children who leave school early to help support the family have much less chance of climbing out of the minimal life themselves...
...unemployed single mother of two in New York City, for instance, is eligible for $253 a month from the Aid to Families with Dependent Children program. She can also get $153 in food stamps, a $286 housing allowance, a Medicaid card and subsidized day care for her children while she attends classes or work-training sessions. The minute she begins working, even for minimum wage, she begins losing her rent and food benefits and must worry about day-care costs, transportation to and from work and medical insurance. Even if the minimum wage were raised to $5 an hour...