Seattle Employees Demand REDUCED HOURS
Ernest HancockSeattle employees ask for REDUCED hours so that "jacked-up" minimum wage won't cost them subsidized housing: Gee, who could have seen this coming...?
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Seattle employees ask for REDUCED hours so that "jacked-up" minimum wage won't cost them subsidized housing: Gee, who could have seen this coming...?
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Who exactly is the burdensome, broken and disturbingly unsensible welfare system being run for?
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State child welfare system failing to protect youth ... Until I had to deal with the Florida Department of Children and Families, I thought some of the criticism of it was unwarranted.
When it comes to the nation's most important entitlement programs -- the programs expected to be there for seniors when they get older after paying into the system for decades -- there are none more important than Social Security and Medicare.
Largest share of participants on assistance for three to four years
We live in an era in which few can even conceive of a world without the welfare state. Who would care for the old?
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My last article, "Shame on Walmart," evoked a spirited and healthy debate among readers.
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The American people are demanding that their hard earned tax dollars are spent carefully
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What should be done with a 29-year-old welfare parasite that believes that in addition to practicing with his rock band, his main job in life is to "make sure the sun's up and the girls are out"?
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