Word: perlis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most obvious problem with Social Security is that elderly Rockefellers are just as entitled to benefits as poor widows. Even Ronald W. Reagan, who made a career of blasting free loaders on the dole, recently applied to get his $800 per month...
...someone with no other income, Social Security benefits are shamefully low. The maximum retirement benefit is only $6492 per year. And wealthy retirees are far more likely to receive this amount...
Elderly widows who have never worked fare even worse. They rely on Supplementary Security Income (SSI), which pays only about $4800 per year in many states...
...plan were adopted at Harvard's graduate schools, which produce more office paper than newspaper waste, the potential for savings would be even greater. White office paper, which also costs the University about $70 per ton in disposal costs, fetches $30 per ton from recycling brokers who can use it to create high quality recycled paper...
...family should have to put more than 25 percent of its income into housing," Sanders said. "We could pull out the soldiers [in Europe] and save $50 billion or $60 billion per year from the defense budget. If we put this money towards housing, the problem of affordable housing could be solved in a year or six months...