Word: lifes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Under the new rules, Wells' life changed drastically--but not the way reformers intended. She did give up welfare last year, but not to work. Instead she lives with her mother. She takes the occasional odd job and gets help from her children's father, who kicks in support "whenever he can." Health care is tough--"I have a pile of bills this high," she says--but she found a hospital emergency room that treats her kids even when she can't pay. Wells succeeded in bucking a major national trend. She didn't join the millions of Americans...
...heart of the fight over hard-to-serve people is a dispute over their character. Are they, as liberals say, workers held back by lack of skills, child-care problems and other facts of life beyond their control? Or are they, as conservatives insist, underachievers at best and shirkers at worst...
...areas of knowledge is Japan," Chira said. "I was hired partly owing to the training that I received in this area at Harvard. I got the East Asia bug and foreign news has always been part of my life...
...grew up in Cambridge, I went to High School in Cambridge. It gave me a real appreciation for the kids that go there," Harshbarger said, adding that some other candidates lack the necessary experience of Cambridge life...
...people who has lived here his whole life, went to school here and understands the kids. I've done it," Harshbarger said. "I offer a viewpoint that is unique because I identify with some of the children. We have children who are struggling in the Cambridge School System and we can't let those kids fail...