[lbo-talk] An Army of Debt/In Harm's Way -- at Home

Yoshie Furuhashi furuhashi.1 at osu.edu
Mon Mar 29 14:58:25 PST 2004


"Across the country, in small towns and big cities, the families of our National Guard and military Reserves are having trouble paying the bills. Many are barely treading water. Some go under. Many households of Reservists -- 30 percent, according to a 2002 Pentagon estimate -- lose income when activated. In 2002, the U.S. Department of Defense also surveyed the spouses of Reservists who had been activated. Out of the 30 percent who said they had lost household income, the Pentagon survey indicated, half had monthly decreases of between $500 and $2,000 per month. Another 23 percent forfeited in excess of $2,001 monthly" (Anne-Marie Cusac, "An Army of Debt," _The Progressive_, April 2004, <http://www.progressive.org/april04/cusac0404.html>).

National Consumer Law Center, "In Harm's Way -- at Home: Consumer Scams and the Direct Targeting of America's Military and Veterans": <http://www.consumerlaw.org/initiatives/military/index.shtml>. -- Yoshie

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