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...Michigan and Wisconsin food pantries reported increases; all three passed welfare-reform laws during the past two years. But the decline in middle-income jobs may be culpable as well. The Bureau of Labor Statistics shows some of the largest gains in job growth among the lowest-paying categories. Poquoson, Va., resident Tim Strickland, 39, makes $25,000 a year. But last year he hurt his back and temporarily left his job as a water-treatment-plant operator. "I was living penny by penny," he says. Friends at a food pantry learned of his plight and sent groceries. Aledia Johnson...
Three days after passing an Air Force "human reliability test" with good marks in February, Meyer was sent to England for temporary duty. He left his wife and three children behind in the rural town of Poquoson, Va. One night last week, Meyer went into Freckenham, a Suffolk town near the Mildenhall air base, got drunk at a party attended by other servicemen and found himself arrested by a constable. He was taken back to the base and put to bed. Although Meyer was under orders not to leave his barracks, about 5 a.m. he got up and sneaked...
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