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...work ethics," argues law professor Julie Nice of the University of Denver. "It is the lack of jobs." But those who do manage to find work can instantly lose their health coverage, food stamps, public housing and child care. Marriage too comes with a penalty. Mary Ann Mendez, a mother of three in Harlingen, Texas, received only Medicaid benefits when she was living with her common-law husband, who worked periodically. When he left her, however, her broken home was showered with benefits: Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), more food stamps, gas money to get to and from...
...grown children, three of whom live with their wives and children in the farmer's small wooden house, also speak poor Spanish, which eliminates their chances of finding work outside subsistence farming. "There are no schools here," says a neighbor, Diego Mendez. "If we do not speak Spanish, we are lost." Lopez and Mendez are both skeptical about the government's promises to bring running water and electricity to communities like theirs...
Even if the government has the will, the local officials who control the town halls also control the flow of government money and, Mendez claims, use it to bolster their friends and freeze out villages that do not support them. It is an accusation heard throughout Mexico: public works money goes to cronies of the bosses...
...Maria Mendez '97 has similar complaints--she thinks she's gained weight since her arrival at Harvard partly because so many foods here are cooked in butter...
...meeting last Thursday, Stacy M. Mendez '94, a Quincy resident and a member of La O, was elected as secretary...