His admission that he fathered a child with an aide cost him support in the black churches.
The aides cost $17 per call or visit, compared with Medicaid payment rates of $200 for a clinic visit in Houston and $175 for an emergency room in Harrisonburg.
In May last year, following a question in parliament, the government stated that Trierweiler's five aides cost €19,742 per month, compared with a staff of eight working for Bruni-Sarkozy at a monthly cost to the taxpayer of €36,448.
An illegal aide can cost far less than the established contractual salary, which varies between 850 and 1,050 euros, or $1,318 and $1,628 a month, depending on the number of hours worked and excluding room and board.
Aided by cost cuts, quarterly profits jumped from $27.6m to $90.9m.
Aided by cost-cutting, the sales of some assets and better-than-expected revenue from display ads, Yahoo's net income more than tripled in the third quarter.
Some researchers have expressed doubts, for example, that "throwing more resources" at students — providing more teachers and aides — is cost effective, in terms of objective measures of educational outcome.
Mr. Franks, who must race to catch up to Mr. Schundler in fund-raising, began spending today what little he has raised so far, with a 60-second radio advertisement that his aides said cost about $30,000.
A Tory aide said this costing assumed everybody would take up the policy in the first year of parliament.
