Word: workers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Social worker David Whitty said he expects about 40 homeless men and women to die in the Boston area this winter...
...Naval War College in Providence, he came to the attention of Navy Secretary John Lehman because of a paper he wrote extolling the modern military uses of the battleship. Lehman pushed North onto the NSC staff, where he quickly became known as an ardent Reaganite. He was an obsessive worker; starting at 7 a.m., he was often in his spartan office in the Old Executive Office Building 17 hours later. He toiled away on weekends and spent little time with his wife and four children...
...point-blank range -- by his cousin. "He wanted money for drugs," contends DeJurnett. "He just flipped out and blasted me." A heavyset former gang member who once served eleven months for mugging a woman and dislocating her shoulder, DeJurnett now has a part-time job as a construction worker and lives in a small stucco house with his wife and two boys. He blames the drug trade for much of the violence that marked the life he used to lead. "There was a time when a guy could smoke a joint and be content. Now they want to smoke...
...with Dependent Children, which often makes it financially disadvantageous for a man to stay at home. In California, for example, a person in a minimum-wage job would gross about $580 a month. Factoring in Social Security deductions, food stamps and other benefits that would go to a typical worker with a spouse and child, the family would get a monthly income of about $737, that is, $246 per family member. If there were no wage earner, however, the mother and child would receive about $498 from AFDC, along with $74 in food stamps, for a total monthly income...
...alcohol," he says. "But if you keep behind your kids and give them a helping hand, it's O.K." Each week he gets on the phone, reminding his teenage charges about their next meeting. Those who have no phone he visits in person. Every week he and a co-worker remind all 75 of them, and they keep coming back...