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...reasonable studies of life in the Boston area now call for a living wage of $20 or more plus benefits. The Massachusetts Family Self-Sufficiency Standard is $20.85 for a parent with one child. The National Low-Income Housing Commission estimates $24.35 as the bare minimum. And the Economic Policy Institute says $28.03 is needed for a parent with two kids...
...refers to the death of Carson’s mother directly, and even those are mediated by literary allusion. As tender as it is to remember visiting her mother being “like starting in on a piece by Beckett,” the epigraph she leaves is bare and cold: “There is so much wind here stones go blank.” The book is penned in defiance of this natural erasure, with Carson’s remembrances acting as a moving apotheosis for their subjects...
...money that we can tap into later.” UC Treasurer Matthew R. Greenfield ’08 also said that there was a misunderstanding over the initial budget proposal. “I think there was some miscommunication whether the number we were talking about was a bare minimum or whether we were going to go through the customary process of allocating what we were going to spend,” said Greenfield. “I think that different people thought the number represented different things, which is why I thought the number had to be eliminated...
...politics - and its 36 new seats won in May's general election can rev up momentum. But the way parliamentary constituencies are drawn, and the mechanics of the first-past-the-post voting system, mean the Tories have to outpoll Labour nationally by at least 10% to take a bare majority in Parliament. ? THEY HAVEN'T GOT THE VISION THING. Aside from turfing out Labour and hankering for smaller government and lower taxes, Tories don't know what to sell the voters. Labour has proclaimed tough positions on the Conservatives' natural issues of crime, immigration and terror...
...hurricane laid bare that poverty is abundant in our country. When we have children of our own, will we do what our parents could not? Will we change the tax structures and other policies that under-fund school districts in the poorest areas of the country? Will we allow our kids to be bused in an effort to desegregate our nation’s schools and force education to become everybody’s problem? Asking parents to sacrifice, in effect, the advantage their children currently have is a difficult task, but if we truly believe in equal rights...