Word: affords
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...average around $250 a month; completed houses can cost well over $100,000. Nike shoes cost up to $200 a pair. Seafood restaurants in town charge $10 a plate. "In America, we could go to restaurants whenever we wanted to," says the teenager Carlos. "Here, we can't afford it anymore." And the cycle of migration is self-propelling. Bartender Alfonso Mayo López, 43, lost his job in the fall when the last bar in Tuxpan closed because all its customers had gone up north. López now sees fewer and fewer reasons not to leave his daughter...
...mail to send daily newsletters and legislative alerts to the group's 110,000 members. He's also proven himself to be skilled at corporate politics, successfully orchestrating a shareholder proxy vote that limited compensation and "golden parachutes" for Verizon's top executives. "Verizon has deep pockets and can afford lobbyists in Washington to push their agenda," Jones says. "The Internet is the only tool we've got to get our message...
...Guttmacher Institute--an abortion-rights advocacy group whose data are considered the best on the issue and are cited by both sides in the debate--found that the two most common reasons given by women are that "having a baby would dramatically change my life" and "I can't afford a baby now." Both were mentioned by more than 70% of the 1,160 women surveyed. And yet numerous polls have found that most Americans say they think abortion should be illegal in those circumstances--a position that cannot be reconciled with their expressed support for Roe v. Wade...
...will have to prove that there are alternatives to abortion and that they can work. In 1997, for instance, Missouri passed a tax credit for donations to maternity homes. These activists also acknowledge that they bear a special burden to help women trying to raise babies they can't afford. Larry Weber, executive director of the Missouri Catholic Conference, notes that the year after abortion-rights opponents helped rally support in 1993 to make more people eligible for Medicaid, the abortion rate dropped sharply...
...policymakers who once might have glossed over her frustration as a side effect of sudden change are thinking twice. "Katrina showed government's failure to respond, and we can't afford those failures again," says Republican Senator Norm Coleman of Minnesota. A quarter of the 24 million people now enrolled in Medicare Part D are "dual eligibles," people who qualify for both Medicaid and Medicare. In other words, they are among the poorest and frailest people in the country. More than 70% of them make less than $10,000 a year; 372,000 of them have Alzheimer's. Republicans realize...