Word: crunches
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Crunch time is here...
...going?" The captain of the Color Directions workshop scanned the faces of her troops intently. It was time to commit, to make sense of hundreds of amber and gold chips and swatches that lay strewn about the polished tabletop like autumn leaves on black pond ice. This was it--crunch time. Whither yellow...
...Wisconsin, which has pioneered welfare reform and is often touted as a national model, the crunch is coming sooner than in other states. That is partly because the latest phase of Wisconsin's law, which is called Wisconsin Works, or W-2, goes into effect Jan. 6 and requires mothers to get into a job program and parenting classes just 12 weeks after giving birth. But it is also because the state already has fairly high standards for day care in place. The challenge has been how to maintain those standards while accommodating thousands of new kids--and the struggle...
There may be more bumps ahead. Because what is at stake in the coming day-care crunch is of far more consequence than whether little Janie watches too much Rug Rats. Without a good solution to the day-care dilemma, welfare reform has no hope of breaking the "cycle of dependency" and may in fact exacerbate it. For starters, a study by Marcia Meyers at Columbia University's School of Social Work has shown that good, reliable child care is a key factor in whether a welfare mother can perform well on the job and stick with...
...hope that somewhere, a kid saw the game and said to himself, "I can succeed no matter what people say." All jokes about his name aside, James Brown showed us why sports is so great. When it came down to crunch time, he simply put the load of an entire state's hopes on his shoulders and then took everyone else along for a magical ride...