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...medical expenses, insurance premiums, and fees associated with Medicare Parts B and D, which cover many outpatient services and prescription medications. The program also provides a stipend for living expenses. Unique to Massachusetts, the DVS veterans’ program is funded by individual cities, which then receive a 75 percent reimbursement from the state, Stevens said. Although the program is currently handling about 100 active cases, Stevens said few of the estimated 2,000 veterans living in Cambridge know what it offers. He said CHA can make more eligible veterans aware of the program by asking all patients about their...
...Student pressure has the potential to change this. Last year HUDS spent $30,000 on shifting 25 percent of its egg supply from Kreider Farms after 1,000 students signed a petition protesting the battery cage conditions that chickens are kept in at the farm (see kreidercruelty.com). For now all liquid eggs still come from Kreider...
...College—has risen from 6.8 in 2000-2001 to 13 in 2007-2008. The Chronicle of Higher Education reported last week that from 2004-2005 to 2006-2007, the average proportion of Pell Grant recipients at the 75 wealthiest colleges dropped from 14 to 13 percent. In the same time period, the percentage at Harvard rose from between 10 and 11 to around 12. Statistics for this academic year are not yet available from all schools. The Pell Grant program provided up to $4,310 of need-based financial assistance to low-income students...
...1940s, who, he said, refused to accept the existence of a Jewish state when they were offered a two-state compromise. “Had the Palestinian leadership accepted the two-state solution of 1938, they would have a very large Palestinian land on what is today probably 70 percent of Israel,” Dershowitz said. “And a million Jews would have been saved from the Holocaust.” Dershowitz said Arab states’ rejection of the resolution has hindered the creation of a Palestinian state. During the discussion, Dershowitz said he still advocates...
...former Republican senator from Tennessee may have adopted his view from a trend abroad. In Eastern Europe, for example, nine countries have already adopted some form of a flat tax. Thompson advocated a similar system: individuals would pay 10 percent on income below $50,000 and 25 percent on the rest. With this quasi-flat tax and the current tax remaining as an option (to be phased out), unchecked loopholes could be closed, and both administrative expenses and general confusion would diminish, while compliance increased. (At least, this has been the Eastern European experience...