[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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