[R-G] An Army of Debt/In Harm's Way -- at Home

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

"Across the country, in small towns and big cities, the families of 
our National Guard and military Reserves are having trouble paying 
the bills.  Many are barely treading water.  Some go under.  Many 
households of Reservists -- 30 percent, according to a 2002 Pentagon 
estimate -- lose income when activated.  In 2002, the U.S. Department 
of Defense also surveyed the spouses of Reservists who had been 
activated.  Out of the 30 percent who said they had lost household 
income, the Pentagon survey indicated, half had monthly decreases of 
between $500 and $2,000 per month.  Another 23 percent forfeited in 
excess of $2,001 monthly" (Anne-Marie Cusac, "An Army of Debt," _The 
Progressive_, April 2004, 
<http://www.progressive.org/april04/cusac0404.html>).

National Consumer Law Center, "In Harm's Way -- at Home: Consumer 
Scams and the Direct Targeting of America's Military and Veterans": 
<http://www.consumerlaw.org/initiatives/military/index.shtml>.
-- 
Yoshie

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