Word: program
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Maine attorneys and advocates for the poor have reacted skeptically to the program. Christopher St. John, executive director of the Maine Center for Economic Policy, says asking poor working families to take on another job is an imposition. "These families need every ounce of their effort to pay for rent and food," he says. "An extra job could be the straw that breaks the camel's back." Others fear that if the IRS rules the labor is revenue, some people may lose some of their Medicaid, food stamps or earned-income tax credit. To avoid that problem, hospital attorneys insisted...
Would the program work elsewhere? "It can work anywhere," says Batt, who came to the region from Denver, where he ran a 565-bed hospital. "It's a way to help patients help themselves." O'Leary puts it this way: "It gives you a good feeling that you aren't a charity case...
...space vehicle in 1957; in 1961 the Americans fired up a chimpanzee named Ham in a Mercury capsule. Presumably Ham, with his evolutionary advantage, had a richer experience in space than the astronaut dog. When America at last committed a human life to the venture, Shepard advanced the space program by an evolutionary quantum leap. He lived to become more famous still by playing golf on the moon during his Apollo 14 expedition...
...remains splendid though underfunded. If the leading edge of popular curiosity trends for the moment away from space and toward cloning, we may sense that in the transition the future has grown a little retrograde, at least from a moral and theological point of view. As the American space program began in the '50s, rockets routinely exploded on the launch pad and collapsed into their own ruins like defunct Las Vegas casinos. The nation's leading rocketmeister was the boy wonder of Peenemunde, Wernher von Braun, inventor of Hitler's Vengeance Rocket, the V-2. (I Aim at the Stars...
...like the glorification of participants in the welfare-to-work program. If I continue to work hard, I won't have to go on welfare--ever. Why praise people who are doing what they should have been doing all along--working! DEBORAH ANNE REDFERN Kenosha...