He earned a bachelor's degree from Lehman College, and, in 1997, after four years working as a counselor for children in a domestic violence shelter, he gave up a steady salary with benefits, borrowed money from his credit card and relatives, and made a $40,000 down payment for a small grocery store in the Morrisania section of the Bronx.
"It dispenses the benefits, borrows what it cannot take, and consumes a greater and greater share of the economy".
Such a government dispenses the benefits, borrows what it cannot take and consumes a greater and greater share of the economy..
Workers are planning to use several strategies to eke by without steady income, including taking out loans, applying for unemployment benefits, borrowing money from family members and even forgoing medication.
How can you work at a job when you haven't slept the night before?" After she lost her welfare benefits, Ms. Graham borrowed money from a friend, Anne Smith, to pay the $58 monthly rental fee on the storage space.
Congress is capable of passing laws that give people benefits with borrowed money, but it gridlocks when it tries to impose self-restraint.
Sixteen states, with exhausted funds, are now paying benefits with borrowed cash, and their number could double by the year's end.
Mr. Cichowski, who was released in July to a halfway house, said he had gambled away his paychecks and government benefits and borrowed money, and at times had survived on the coins he found in slot machines.
The New Yorker critic John Lahr noted that his production "benefited and borrowed" from its London incarnation — the pacing, sharper; the design, simpler; the human dynamics, more defined.
"We are not seeking benefits, simply borrowing.
Often, the fundamental trade-offs between the costs and benefits of borrowing for investment are underplayed.
