Word: stipend
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...current laureate and poetry critics in making his choice. It is the only government office for a literary artist that is not federally funded. It is an academic-year position (October to May), but poets may extend their term if they choose. The perks include a $35,000 stipend, a $5,000 travel allowance, cultural cachet and a swanky office at the Library of Congress - aptly called the Poetry Room, replete with furniture from the English Edwardian and American Colonial Revival periods and a view of the Capitol...
Until last week, Frank L. was an unknown 41-year old former policeman who worked in geriatric care to supplement his meager welfare stipend, and in his spare time enjoyed an occasional beer at the pub. Last Saturday, though, a moment of vandalism turned Frank L. into something of a national hero, mentioned by some in the same breath as the legendary Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, who led a failed assassination attempt against Hitler in 1944. Frank L. accomplished his extraordinary rise from obscurity to national celebrity through a simple act of decapitation...
...founding of the prize, students received a $1,500 stipend for winning the award. Today the prize has been upped...
...serves low-income veterans and their surviving spouses by paying costs not covered by state medical insurance. These costs include out-of-pocket 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...
Take the street cleaner, Salandria. He has spent the last decade on temporary public-works contracts - deemed "socially useful" jobs by a state welfare scheme - with a monthly stipend of $770. A father of five, he says he has had to supplement his income with cash-paid day jobs in construction: "You do your best to support your family." Meanwhile, Mayor Melfi's nephew, Sergio Zaccaria, 27, a business major at Roma Tre University in the nation's capital, says he is not likely to come back to live in Amendolara. "Young people here are bitter that...