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EAST PALO ALTO, CALIFORNIA, SUFFERS ONE OF THE HIGHEST homicide rates in the nation. As a result, teachers in the Ravenswood Elementary City School District often find themselves chipping in as much as $500 to help defray the funeral expenses of a student caught in the cross fire. But since minimum expenses for funerals tend to run two to three times as high, the district is facing a grim decision. Next week the school board will discuss whether to buy life insurance for its students in order to make sure that funerals are covered. Since most of the students...
...postpartum expenses. She is guaranteed a six-month paid maternity leave, two months longer than for each of her prior pregnancies, to cover the added responsibilities of an expanding family. In the third month of her pregnancy, Isabelle will begin to accrue monthly benefits, eventually totaling $343, to defray the cost of another infant. If Isabelle decides not to return to work, she will get $563 in "parental education benefits" to reward her decision to stay home. If she does return to the classroom, she can count on subsidized day care. All of this is in addition...
...going to represent someone rich, I'm surely going to use his money to help defray the expenses of other cases. For example, the two boys who were on death row--the boys we were portraying in the movie--we just won their case this part year. That case cost a fortune to pursue and we had no resources to do that, not even expenses. So I used the fees that I earned from Von Bulow and Milken and Helmsley to pay for these boys on death...
...people above the poverty level, working but unable to afford health insurance, we would provide them an additional tax benefit to help defray the costs of health insurance. The other important thing to do is to increase what's called pooling, so that there's much more risk sharing. The costs for people in very small firms are averaged out over a very much larger pool, which brings the price of insurance down for them...
Whatever shortcomings artists may see, audiences seem to want Shakespeare outdoors more than ever. New troupes spring up each year as stage entrepreneurs discover what Ashland's founder, Angus Bowmer, learned in 1935. He staged boxing matches as a way to defray the costs of his outdoor Shakespeare shows. The boxing lost money. From the start, the Shakespeare turned a profit...