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SLOW START The risk factors that foretell academic trouble for many students begin to take their toll as early as kindergarten, reports a Department of Education study. Children from low-income households headed by parents with little education had poorer number and letter skills, more problem behaviors and more illness. The study suggests intervention in preschool, along with Head Start programs and quality child care...
...poverty "as we know it." He proposes increasing the minimum wage to $6.15 an hour. He promises to spend federal education dollars to place 60,000 new teachers in poor and rural areas of the country. He also proposes to expand the earned income tax credit (which would allow poorer families to keep more of their money) and to provide tax credits and other incentives for affordable childcare...
...Boston Heralds like Talmudic scholars looking for an esoteric pattern to the endless stream of numbers, past piles of losing tickets littering the puke-green floors, I feel somehow enlivened. I know that, in the best of all worlds, I'll make the 100-yard walk to the T poorer twice as often as richer. But I also know that tomorrow, I could make the super and catch my own Ticket Out of Here...
HPHC is one of three major HMOs in the state. If HPHC is dissolved, its 1.1 million subscribers--which include many Harvard employees--will be turned over to other health-care providers. This reduced competition could result in higher premiums and poorer care. It would also mean the loss of what once was a premier non-profit HMO in the country, a valuable counter-balance to the powerful for-profit HMOs that dominate the health-care industry. Massachusetts Attorney General Thomas F. Reilly has rightly expressed a preference to keep the HMO a non-profit organization, so that premiums...
...would take the bus, and we saw how the neighborhoods changed--passing by the mansions of Cambridge, through poorer neighborhoods of Boston and finally to the housing projects of Mission Hill," Pan, a former PBHA president, says...