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It depends on how you break it down. Food stamps for the family -- I don't know how Mass. determines assistance rates: around here, it could easily be $200 a month (which still doesn't help much). Utility assistance, figure that's another $100. Nothing a lot of people living in poverty (or faking same) can't get by filling out the right forms over several months.
Section 8 housing is the big one. Locally, it's almost impossible to get into -- applications are taken once or twice a year for one day -- and if you get through, they typically pay just about your entire rent. But it's generally limited to the disabled and seniors whose rent increase has outpaced their Social Security. Again, I don't know what the New England rules are, but I'd think it would be hard for a working household -- or even an unemployed one -- to get into. Weird.
Incidentally, someone apparently did propose regulating and tracking pressure cooker sales, and at least one place tried pulling them off the shelves. Direct that outrage.
The one that gave me epidermis irritation: people who called and tweeted ESPN to demand the network stop covering news: just drop the marathon and go to a backup lacrosse game. Priorities!
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