Word: aide
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Among the items approved were: $192 million in Medicaid reimbursements, $18.8 million for the Aid to Families with Dependent Children program, $14.3 million for welfare relief funds and $12.3 million for Department of Social Services programs for children...
...parents are wealthy enough not to need financial aid, one can go right on to college from high school. But if one is not so fortunate as to be born to a well-off family, one will have no choice but to enter the "Citizens Corps." The gross unfairness of that situation is itself a damning criticism of the bill: how can we as a democratic nation take seriously a policy that explicitly exempts the rich from requirements made of the citizenry...
Beyond the questions of fairness, though, imagine what our country would look like under a National Service Act. Students reliant upon financial aid, since they will have served in the Citizens Corps, will be a few years older than their richer classmates. It seems likely that the division between financial-aid and non-financial-aid students, currently invisible to the casual observer, will become noticeable and significant...
THESE fundamental problems of unfairness and division are inherent in any service-for-financial-aid trade-off; they would exist regardless of whether the requirement is for civilian or military service. What makes the Nunn bill even worse is that--in the manner of the current ROTC but on a much grander scale--it would force people into the military. Raymond Davis of the D.C. Student Coalition Against Apartheid and Racism concludes that, because the proposed military voucher is so much greater than the voucher for civilian service, young people "would be likely to take one of the military options...
Nonetheless, Fillipova and Mikhulskaya sell their designs (from 100 rubles for a simple jacket to 1,000 rubles for a full suit) to a small group of relatively prosperous rock musicians, artists and filmmakers. With the aid of newly relaxed travel restrictions, the two are hoping to take their creations to New York City this fall. Who knows? If the hammer-and-sickle designs become popular enough in the West, they may wind up as eagerly sought after items in a place that already covets such Western garb as T-shirts and dungarees: the Soviet Union...