Word: vouchers
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...first prize, awarded to The Stone Cutters was $500 cash and a scheduled appearance at Virgin Records on Newbury Street. Second prize, going to Corporate Whore, was a Virgin Records gift voucher. The competition was put on by the Consortium For Global Leadership, a group that brings in speakers and organizes events to “get the three schools to mingle,” says Geraldine Chin, the host of the show from the Law School. The five judges included representatives from the House of Blues, the Boston Phoenix, Virgin Records and a student from the Medical School. Bands...
...lower courts had deemed the voucher program unconstitutional, saying it gave preference to one religion over another...
...defended the voucher program Friday, saying the vouchers are “neutral aid, so [they] shouldn’t be considered unconstitutional...
This practice has come under fire recently, with a February Supreme Court case, Simmons-Harris vs. Zelman, regarding the constitutionality of a Cleveland school voucher program. The program gave 82 percent of its vouchers to students attending religious schools, Sonne said...
...better American health care is to improve access to preventative care. Such care would keep people healthier to begin with and would be cost-effective. Why create a massive bureaucracy when we can preclude problems by subsidizing preventative care? Instead, the government should provide a check-up voucher to poor American families...