Word: gao
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...ARTICLE announcing the GAO report appeared on page 15 of the New York Times below a larger article on the preservation of sea turtles. While not to demean the plight of the sea turtle, the prioritization in this case is reflective of a national problem...
...FEBRUARY 25 the General Accounting Office (GAO) released a report on the health and safety of hired farm workers. The report stated that federal laws and programs do not adequately protect the predominantly Hispanic farm workers and their children...
According to the GAO, migrant workers' problems included wages below minimum wage, work in pesticide covered fields and a lack of adequate drinking water and toilets on the job. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimated that farm workers suffer nearly 300,000 "acute illnesses" per year due to these sub-standard working conditions...
...GAO reports went on to say that these conditions effect entire families since most migrant farm workers are heads of a household and do not receive the Social Security and medical benefits to which they are entitled. Also, many children begin working in the same conditions, foregoing educational opportunities, in order to help support their families. The children work in the same miserable conditions as their parents...
Last week, the General Accounting Office (GAO) provided evidence to a House subcommittee that the Medical School had overcharged the government approximately $750,000 in indirect cost reimbursements. This figure is in addition to $250,000 which the school had previously returned to the government of its own accord...