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School districts typically rely on the honor system when families sign up for free or reduced-price lunches, and certification errors cost taxpayers nearly $1 billion in 2010-11, U.S. Department of Agriculture figures show. The agency runs the $11 billion federally subsidized National School Lunch Program and does not require proof that applicants meet income guidelines.
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... review of the lunch counting and claiming system employed by each school within the jurisdiction of... school food authority; comparisons of daily free, reduced price and paid lunch counts against data ...
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WASHINGTON, Oct. 13 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Samsung Electronics Company Ltd. (Samsung), a Korean manufacturer of dynamic random access memory (DRAM) and its U.S. subsidiary, Samsung Semiconductor Inc., have agreed to plead guilty and to pay a $300 million fine for participating in an international conspiracy to fix prices in the DRAM market, the Department of Justice announced. Samsung's fine is the second largest criminal antitrust fine in U.S. history and the largest criminal fine since 1999. Price fixing threatens our free market system, stifles innovation, and robs American consumers of the benefit of competitive prices," said Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales. "Today's guilty plea is evidence of the Department's ongoing commitment to protect consumers from corporations that engage...
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Once again, Dr. Joe Cramer displays his condescending attitude toward people who oppose the government takeover of the health insurance market (April 3). Now, he compares all who disagree with overweening government policies to "children" who are "angry" because they don't understand what is happening to them? Then he pulls out the nuclear straw-man option of all liberals when he compares those who are angry with this mandate to those who opposed civil rights. I have some news for Dr. Cramer; 32 million Americans were not all uninsured because of price rationing. Some did this out of free choice. Most things are excluded by price; that is called the free- market system. When goods and services are rationed by the government, that is called socialism. And that is where the real children ...
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IN NEW Jersey, most property owners support public schools through local property taxes. Often we complain that they're too high and rise too fast, but it's the price we pay to ensure a solid system of free education for everyone through high school. It doesn't matter whether we have school-age children. If we are childless, or if our children are grown, we still pay our fair share -- and we pay at the same rate as families with children in every grade. The principle is that our children belong to all of us, and we improve society today and in the future when we guarantee universal education.
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Much of the maquila work here in El Salvador is done under blows and threats... But here [at Just Garments] it is a different kind of motivation; here we work willingly, by our own motivation... It is an investment in our own future," said Nicsa, a Just Garments worker. Just Garments' goal of providing workers a living wage and a healthy working environment while maintaining an affordable price is a direct affront to the "free" market system of corporate domination and worker exploitation. Kathryn Sharpe, an activist from Minneapolis and recent visitor to Just Garments, noted: "They are offering an alternative and that's threatening to companies that are dependent on an exploitative model. "Just Garments has taken a leap of faith and is hoping that the sweatfree movement will get up t...
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The Dec. 8 Gazette contained two important articles that state officials should heed when focusing upon a successful strategy to contain prescription drug costs. And a third article ("Drug-price group meets in city") appeared in the Oct. 22 Gazette. One of the December articles reported that a West Virginia jury took 35 minutes to find in favor of a drug company that the state claimed had defrauded it of $3 million by posting a fraudulent and inflated "average wholesale price." The other contained a reminder from Gov. Joe Manchin that we operate within a free enterprise system and therefore should focus on incentives such as "buying pools" to realize drug purchase savings.
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If a free market is the best way to discover price, traders of all kinds say the system is broken, forcing them to the sidelines until the risk passes. In agriculture commodities, for instance, volatility in the cotton and grain markets has prompted the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to call a public meeting April 22 to discuss what has gone wrong, including the role speculators and commodity index traders play in the mix.
