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...student workers across campus, limiting employment opportunities and forcing students to take shorter shifts at workplaces ranging from libraries to the Office of Career Services. Evelyn R. Wenger ’11, a student receptionist who has worked at OCS for the past two years, said that the maximum amount of hours each student can work per week has been reduced this year. Wenger worked between seven and ten hours each week last year, but she can no longer put in the same number of hours due to policy changes and new hour allocations, she said. “They...
...things devolve to this point? We have underestimated the amount of social change that we've lived through in the past 40 or 50 years. The first wave of change came with the rebellious spirit of the '60s. We threw off a lot of conventional wisdom. A lot of what we threw away was bad - bias, prejudice, segregation. But a lot of the spiritual and traditional ways Americans used to organize beliefs in their lives were thrown out, and it turned out it was very hard to replace those things...
...Insurance plans for sale in the exchanges would be vetted by the Federal Government to meet minimum standards for coverage. There would be a range of plans offered in the exchanges: bronze, silver, gold and platinum. Bronze plans would be the cheapest, offering the least amount of coverage; platinum plans, the most expensive, offering the most coverage...
...commodity-distribution systems developed to aid the needy and unload surplus wheat and other products bought by the government to support farm prices. Food stamps originally came in two colors: recipients bought orange stamps, which could be used for any kind of food, and they were given half that amount in free blue stamps, which could be used to buy designated surplus foods (all but the most destitute had to make some payment to receive food stamps until 1977). About 20 million people made use of the original food-stamp program, but its popularity dwindled as prosperity returned...
...there and encouraging more stores to accept them as payment (Costco announced this year it will take food stamps at some New York City stores on a temporary basis). As an experiment, CNN reporter Sean Callebs spent the month of February relying on food stamps. Spending $176 - the maximum amount awarded by the state of Louisiana, where he lives - Callebs found that he could buy enough food, but only if he avoided snacks and most name-brand items. "I can tell you my pants are much looser," he said after the month was over...