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Up one levelExamination of Welfare Reform Reveals Complex, Stressful Life of Working Poor
April Mouser is a shift manager at a Hardin County fast-food restaurant, earning $8.90 an hour. Though she works full-time, she gets no benefits — “no sick leave, no insurance,” she said. She feels lucky that while she’s working, her mother watches her four children, ages 14, 12, 10, and 8. “Hopefully, they’ll go to college,” she said. This is the type of family that 1996 welfare reform legislation was designed to help, said Sharon Seiling, consumer sciences researcher with the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center.
Science on the Road: OARDC Reaches Out to Schools in Times of Budget Crunch
For years now, OARDC has made science more exciting for Ohio K-12 students by offering different hands-on educational programs on its Wooster campus. In fact, one such program alone, The Science of Agriculture, attracted 924 kids in 2006 — 446 more than in the previous year.