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...Community Development Department, said that as Cambridge becomes more affluent, it becomes more difficult for elderly residents—who are often on fixed incomes—to afford rising rents and other costs. Cook added that the city is becoming more socioeconomically diverse because the number of low-income residents—who often live in public housing—has remained constant, while higher-income individuals have steadily replaced middle-class residents. “When we no longer have as many folks who are middle income in the community, it makes it that much harder to bridge...
...years ago that people were fighting over the establishment of the Women’s Center.” Another intern at the Women’s Center, Nikki A. Johnson, a student at the Graduate School of Design, said the event was a “very low-key and friendly way of inviting a lot of different people into the space.” “It helps people to see that we put on a whole range of events, some more serious than others,” Johnson said. Ullman said that over the last couple...
...unemployment would result in an additional 1.1 million people losing health insurance; add that to the 47 million Americans who are currently uninsured. Virtually all of those newly uninsured will be forced to enroll in Medicaid or the State Children's Health Insurance Program, the government's primary low-income health plans. To support the growing registry, these health plans will need $3.4 billion in additional funding, at least $1.4 billion of which will have to come from state legislatures. But the extra money will be difficult to collect, as states' revenues and the economy continue to shrink. Nearly...
...reality, Carlson’s low blow is refuted by the facts: Canadian troops are doing a substantial amount of the dirty work in the forgotten war in Afghanistan. Troops are stationed under the maple leaf in one of the most dangerous Afghan provinces, Kandahar. Consequently, Canada has the highest proportion of deaths relative to the number of troops on the ground of any major coalition member in Afghanistan. To lump us in (as did one Ms. Coulter) with the effete French who refuse to set foot in Kandahar is just another product of the vast right-wing conspiracy...
...Maybe that's why his campaign, in the final weekend before the Indiana and North Carolina contests, had a determinedly new feel - low-key, intimate, a series of Kodak moments. Or maybe it was Obama's way of trying to tell Hoosiers that he's not all that different than they are, whatever they might have heard about his controversial former pastor or the question of whether he wears an American flag on his lapel. In Indiana, there were two picnics, a roller-skating party, a game of pickup basketball. His daughters, 9-year-old Malia and 6-year...