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...source of funding for social programs. However, whether it's taking up arms to defend our nation, starting businesses that provide employment and expansion, or inventing things that make our lives better, in the main it is we along the backbone who do it. LARRY M. HEWIN Williamsburg, Va...
...shipyards of Newport News, Va., are no longer the powerful job creators they used to be, but there is still lots of work to be had. The government employs a substantial number; telemarketers and computer makers have moved in; the regional unemployment rate is just 4.2%. But then there's this other statistic: over the past year, the local food bank reported a 69% increase in people requesting help...
...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 of Newport...
DIED. ROBERTA BURKE, 98, first lady of the Navy whose quiet guidance anchored her husband, Admiral Arleigh, and fellow wives in the service; in Fairfax, Va. Burke's 72-year partnership with the admiral, which ended in his death last year, carried her from port to port and, after her husband's appointment as Navy Chief in 1955, to the stately Admiral's House--where she earned a reputation as a gracious hostess and mentor. In her mind, however, she remained, as her epitaph gently insists, "a sailor's wife...
SENTENCED. EARL PITTS, 44, FBI turncoat who pleaded guilty to spying for the Russians; to 27 years in prison, longer than prosecutors had recommended; in Alexandria, Va. Pitts is only the second bureau agent ever convicted of espionage...