Word: parent
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...eligibility rules and benefit levels within guidelines established by Washington. The Federal Government pays, on the average, 54% of the costs. In about half of the states, families in which both a mother and a father are present can receive benefits, but in the other half only single-parent households qualify. Benefit levels vary widely: in Alabama, for example, a family of three gets about $4,000 a year in AFDC and food-stamp benefits; in Alaska such a family gets about $11,500. Some state officials feel that the system must be reformed on a nationwide basis so that...
...What we're seeing is a worsening of the health status of poor people" said Dr. Michael Weitzman, medical director of parent and child health services at Boston's Department of Health and Hospitals. "Blacks are more likely to be poor than whites. The higher mortality rate reflects the failure of safety programs to compensate for people who live in poverty...
...affiliation with AFSCME marks the end to a more than a year long period when the local labor leaders rejected affiliation with their previous parent union, the United Auto Workers (UAW). As recently as 1982 Harvard support staff in the Medical Area voted down unionization, but union officials are confident that by affiliating with AFSCME they will get the boost to successfully and their 15 year effort to organize University clerical workers...
...international parent union, currently themost successful organizing union in the country,will also bring organizational experience from itsefforts at other colleges nationwide, said Howard.In 2 years AFSCME organized 20,000 employees atthe University of California and it also hasformed branches at Rutgers and the University ofMichigan...
...Turner has used his share of Perils-of-Pauline financial maneuvers in building Turner Broadcasting System, the parent firm of Cable News Network and superstation WTBS. But the brash entrepreneur put a time bomb under his company when he bought MGM/UA Entertainment last March for $1.5 billion. As part of the purchase agreement for the film and TV production firm, Turner issued 53.3 million shares of preferred stock in Turner Broadcasting. A provision of the deal was that starting this June, he would have to pay dividends on those shares in the form of common stock in his firm...