A Laboratory of the Future Human Experience
Teens with jobs is a rarity in the U.S.
Two major accomplishments will be celebrated by Nick Gentry this month. He is graduating from high school and he has landed his first job after a very long job search. Collecting a paycheck makes Gentry, 18, a rarity in today’s working world.
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“The reality is that prospects for the poor and the near poor are dismal.”
A record number of Americans are being squeezed by rising living costs. Nearly 1 in 2 have fallen into poverty or are scraping by on earnings that classify them as low income.
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Low-income homes will be provided with $10 internet service and $150 computers.
Cable and computer firms along with the Federal Communications Commission have announced a program to provide low-income homes with $10 monthly broadband Internet service and $150 computers.
British welfare benefits allow London’s poor to live in areas such as affluent St. John’s Wood.
St. John’s Wood is the place the London A-listers choose to live. It is a neighborhood of the wealthy with its leafy avenues lined with the mansions of Paul McCartney, Ewan McGregor and Kate Moss. And yet, they share the most unlikely neighbors — the Kastrati family.
Stress and financial strain may take toll.
Moms who had children outside of marriage may be at risk for poor health later in life. Thousands of mothers who participated in a 30-year study, but the ones who had delivered children outside of marriage reported being less healthy when they reached their 40s than the ones who had postponed motherhood until after marriage.
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Low income makes poor more conservative.
You might think that in a time when more money is concentrated in fewer hands and incomes vary wildly from billions to subsistence, poor people might increase their support for government policies that offer some help.
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Medicaid saw it’s sharpest increase in enrollment since the 1960’s.
Enrollment in Medicaid, the healthcare program for the poor, showed the sharpest annual rise last year since the late 1960s, a report said on Thursday, blaming the effects of the recession.
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Many states slashing childcare subsidies.
Able-bodied, outgoing and accustomed to working, Alexandria Wallace wants to earn a paycheck. But that requires someone to look after her 3-year-old daughter, and Ms. Wallace, a 22-year-old single mother, cannot afford child care.
Continue reading… “Childcare Subsidy Cuts Force Some To Go On Welfare”
In a study likely to make school janitors cringe, US researchers said on Wednesday that chewing gum may boost academic performance in teenagers.
Continue reading… “Chewing Gum Boosts Academic Scores of Students”
