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That prospect seems wildly remote. Albania is the poorest country in Europe, + with an average monthly wage of less than $70. Private-car ownership, recently allowed by the government, is virtually unknown. Some 65% of the population lives in the countryside, still shaken by the collectivization of the last remnants of private livestock in 1981. While Albania's population grew at an average annual rate of 2.1% in the past decade, the number of livestock was the same...
...that new taxes were needed to finance the fighting. "We've got to live in the real world and start paying our bill," said Democratic Senator Ernest Hollings of South Carolina. Harvard economist John Kenneth Galbraith advocated a surcharge on annual incomes greater than $100,000. "Some of our poorest people are fighting the war," Galbraith said. "I would like to see our richest people pay for it. It would be a fine expression of democratic will...
...Catholic priest, Michael Pfleger, whose parish is located in one of Chicago's poorest neighborhoods, declared, "If George Bush wants to set deadlines, he could set deadlines on unemployment, apartheid, homelessness. He has been hell-bound for months on war. I have never heard a President talk so much war talk in my lifetime." During Vietnam, American labor unions and blue-collar workers tended to support the war. This time, the presidents of * nine major unions argued for a peaceful solution...
Several educators who have worked closely with Peterkin feel differently about his decision to enter academics. The principal of North Division High School, which serves Milwaukee's poorest district, says that while Peterkin's departure came as a surprise, it will not derail efforts to improve the schools...
...nightmare. Draconian cost-control measures follow. But because government can only attempt to control the costs of its own programs, the providers of care simply shift their costs onto the bills of privately insured patients. Faced with ever rising costs, the private insurers become more determined to shed the poorest and the sickest . . . and so the cycle goes...