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2001-11-06

Tuesday, November 06, 2001 8:02 AM
use the government fun to compensate for real losses, not to
enri ch

Reduce fund payments if victim families already received charity. Use
goverment money to compensate for real losses. What about the unemployed
who survived physically but will be making trouble paying rent?

From the New York Times:
November 6, 2001

THE UNEMPLOYED
Attacks Hit Low-Pay Jobs the Hardest
By LESLIE EATON and EDWARD WYATT
...

With the public's attention riveted to the sad stories of the dead and the
heroism of the rescuers, some workers fear that their plights will be
ignored.
"No one wants to hear our stories," said Asmat M. Ali, a former captain at
Windows on the World. "About a busboy or the dishwasher making $250 a week
and raising three kids in an apartment in the Bronx or Brooklyn. But 80
percent of the people who worked in the World Trade Center fell in that
category."

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2001-11-06