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...year-old projects across the country; it gets the really hard-to-look-at people off the street; and it saves money, because administrative costs make it more expensive to put up people at a shelter than to give them their own apartment (sheltering a homeless person on a cot in a New York City shelter, for example, costs on average $1,800 a month). It's similar to the problem faced by hospitals, where the uninsured use ambulances and emergency rooms as a very expensive version of primary care. Culhane's finding is also attractive in its simple...
When he had recently moved into Dunster House in the 1950s, Kletzsch said he subsisted on a yearly salary of $1,000, sleeping on a cot in what he refers to as the “secret room,” a hidden space just off the Dunster library...
...move out. A state agency has placed the family temporarily in a motel room and pays part of the $45-a-night tab. June now cleans rooms in the motel, and Tom works in a sports bar. But it's a struggle. The family shares two double beds, a cot and one chair; toys and school books are stored underneath the beds; luxuries, even small ones like movies, are usually out of the question. This is not what they expected for their kids. "They know this is home now," says June, "and it hurts...
...reputable surgeon like Xia would mean fees more than double her entire college tuition. Her father, the only family member who knows about the $12,000 surgery, agreed that it would be an investment in Xiaohong's future. "First impressions are what matters," says Xiaohong, perched on her hospital cot. "People in China will always pick the taller woman, even if the shorter person is more talented." When Xiaohong finishes the six-month exercise and rehab program in Beijing, she knows she will have to tell her mother about the extravagant expense. After all, you can't hide...
...hours later, after a few French passengers had been arrested for smoking on the plane, Graham-Felsen said he was transported to a Canadian army base and assigned a cot...