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...hardly fair to deny food stamps to legal immigrants even in the best of times. While we believe that immigrants should come to this country ready to work, we know that immigrants—just like many other Americans??cannot always find jobs. And food stamps are not only for the unemployed, but also for the working poor, who live barely above the federal poverty line despite full-time work. Low-income parents must often work excessively long hours to maintain a basic standard of living for their families. Even under Bush’s proposal, many immigrants...
...Racial’ Self (1987), and Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man (1997). Gates was awarded a MacArthur Foundation “genius grant” in 1981, and was included in Time Magazine’s “25 Most Influential Americans?? list...
...AmeriCorps program and encouraging military service abroad. However, while they mentioned the Peace Corps vision of President John F. Kennedy ’40, a former Crimson editor, as an example of the types of public service initiatives that have come before, they had noticeably little to say about Americans?? service abroad beyond encouraging larger compensation packages for servicemen...
...have helped them throw off the bonds of terror, we must be committed to helping them improve their quality of life. Otherwise our assistance will seem merely self-serving, hollow words from a hollow, self-interested nation. One of the best ways to prevent this conclusion is by increasing Americans?? direct service and volunteer presence abroad. As McCain and Bayh wrote, some of the best people to provide such service are young people. It is a great thing that Bayh and McCain have advocated the expansion of AmeriCorps, for which House Republicans tried to eliminate funding last summer...
However, there is no reason to want Americans?? safety to be ‘flexible.’ Airport security personnel who were federal employees would undergo a universal screening process and would be expected to work as highly trained professionals. Having higher-paid federal workers instead of outsourced personnel will attract more qualified individuals to guard our airports, and we would rather pay the extra cost than have the safety of all Americans protected by the lowest bidder...