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$100,000 to breed toads in Wyoming...

Wyoming Toad Recovery Program

http://www07.grants.gov/search/search.do?&mode=VIEW&flag2006=false&oppId=48044

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$10 million to improve education...in Cambodia

Cambodia Basic Education

http://www07.grants.gov/search/search.do?&mode=VIEW&flag2006=false&oppId=48068

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http://www.wpri.com/dpp/news/local_news/local_wpri_massachusetts_is_housing_homeless_in_motels200906 24bcm

Mass. is housing
homeless in motels

Costing tax payers around $2 million
per month

Updated: Wednesday, 24 Jun 2009, 5:23 PM EDT
Published : Wednesday, 24 Jun 2009, 9:15 AM EDT

MASSACHUSETTS (WPRI) - A record number of families are being put up in motels in Massachusetts. High unemployment and the rising number of home foreclosures is the reason the state is taking this action.

Housing Massachusetts’ homeless is costing tax payers around $2 million per month. It costs an average of $85 per night to have families, including nearly 1000 children, stay in motels.

The Interagency Council on Housing and Homelessness admits that the use of motels for the homeless is not ideal, but is the best that can be done at this time.

Homeless advocates are worried that families are not getting the support of shelters with living rooms, kitchens, and play areas.

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http://www.wxii12.com/health/19843503/detail.html

Program Pays Girls $1 Per Day To Not Get Pregnant

Funds Help Pay For Girls' College Educations

POSTED: 9:17 am EDT June 24, 2009
UPDATED: 9:28 am EDT June 24, 2009


GREENSBORO -- A buck-a-day -- that's the incentive being offered to young girls to keep them from getting pregnant.

The group College-Bound Sisters was founded at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro by Hazel Brown, a maternity nurse who thought too many teens were having babies.

Brown said she hopes the program, which pays $1 each day to 12-to-18-year-old girls, will keep them from getting pregnant. In addition to remaining pregnancy-free, the girls must also attend weekly meetings.

The program is funded by a four-year grant from the state.

"Our three goals are that they avoid pregnancy, graduate from high school and enroll in college," Brown said.

Under the program, $7 is deposited into an interest-bearing college fund that the girls can collect once they graduate high school.

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*Cough* BILLIONS TO IRAQ *COUGH*

Hey, we're educating Iraqi kids, I can't be too upset about doing the same in Cambodia. Especially as the system may still be screwed up for our military actions there in the 20 century.

Jeez... Already talking about the 20th century as though it's long in the past. :blueeek:

[WannaBreatheYou]

Giving homeless families a place to live, albeit a hotel, gives them an address so they can apply for jobs to get off the streets. I understand that one.

Keeping teenage girls from getting pregnant? Great, that's $365/year/girl as opposed to $400+ per month + food stamps + medicaid + SEction 8 housing if they got pregnant.

And the US is always helping other countries more than they help their own. I'm not surprised by the education in Cambodia.

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Hundreds of Billions of dollars to attack Iraq.

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Keeping teenage girls from getting pregnant? Great, that's $365/year/girl as opposed to $400+ per month + food stamps + medicaid + SEction 8 housing if they got pregnant.



You know, i never really had a problem not getting knocked up and i never got paid for it. why cant this money go to teaching them about SAFE sex so they dont get knocked up or diseased? that way both sexes benefit.

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My guess is that the weekly meetings will cover that, Sparks.

[WannaBreatheYou]

You know, i never really had a problem not getting knocked up and i never got paid for it. why cant this money go to teaching them about SAFE sex so they dont get knocked up or diseased? that way both sexes benefit.

I didn't get "knocked up" in high school, either, however I'm more than okay with a buck a day going to girls as an incentive to keep from getting pregnant. Because far too many of them are getting pregnant...and then being a drain on the government.