What do we get for the billions spent on job training? Connecticut wants to know.
Laser cutting at Sound Manufacturing. | photo by: MARK PAZNIOKAS :: CTMIRROR.ORG
Sandra Claxton always worked without a financial cushion. That’s typical for the low-wage workers who perform the vital work of caring for the infirm and elderly as health aides, certified nursing assistants and personal care attendants. Still, her fall into homelessness after the end of her marriage in 2017 was stunning.
Her husband put her out. That’s her phrase. On her own, she could not afford the $400 monthly payment on the Subaru that took her to assignments as a visiting home health aide, a job she had held for seven years. The dominoes fell fast. No car meant no job. No job meant no way to get an apartment.
less freedom to make their own health decisions than residents of other advanced nations.
Consider the Pfizer vaccine. It was as far back as March that scientists at BioNTech had developed a vaccine and partnered with Pfizer to test and distribute it. At that time, both the U.S. and U.K. governments prohibited Pfizer from distributing the vaccine to the general public. Reasonable people can disagree about whether barring Pfizer from distributing the vaccine to the general public while they were conducting government‐mandated testing was a good thing. But we should all be able to agree that these governments denied Pfizer the freedom to sell the vaccine and denied consumers in each country the freedom to purchase and take it.
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In a bipartisan effort, Congress is close to a deal to simplify the federal financial aid form, or FAFSA, a major policy goal of retiring Republican senator Lamar Alexander. Samuel Corum/Getty Images
U.S. lawmakers have announced an agreement on a handful of higher education measures that would provide meaningful help to marginalized students, students of color and many of the schools that serve them. The aid is part of a broad new set of legislation, meant to fund the federal government through fiscal year 2021. Lawmakers are expected to vote on the proposed changes this week.
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Ribbon wall corridor that serves as a connector between the new VA ambulatory care center clinics and the older 12-story VA hospital. LEO A DALY
The ribbon wall on a corridor of the new VA Ambulatory Care Center has hues of glass emulating the ribbon racks (or color bars) that service men and women wear on their uniforms. This is intended to symbolize honor. LEO A DALY
Scott Charles Ross, a native of Waterloo, NE, served in the US Navy. He resides in Des Moines, Iowa. Pieces such as White Washed House, Green Fields and Zennor Farms are his interpretations of the primitive Cornish landscape that evokes a simpler way of life, according to the commemorative book created by LEO A Daly about the VA Ambulatory Care Center.