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“I didn’t think it was that bad until I walked down my street and everything is gone. I don’t know what to do.”
“I didn’t think it was that bad until I walked down my street and everything is gone. I don’t know what to do.”
— Yvonne Tucker, who rushed to a shelter with about 60 of her neighbors at Pinaire Mobile Home Park in Wichita, Kansas, before a tornado struck. Her home was destroyed.
“The change has to be handled carefully and with a lot of sensitivity so that there aren’t people who lose track of a payment.”
— Web Phillips, of the National Committee to Protect Social Security and Medicare, on the fact the federal government is phasing out paper checks for all benefit programs.