{"id":126,"date":"2005-09-28T09:05:35","date_gmt":"2005-09-28T13:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/2005\/09\/28\/support-woes\/"},"modified":"2005-09-28T09:05:35","modified_gmt":"2005-09-28T13:05:35","slug":"support-woes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/2005\/09\/28\/support-woes\/","title":{"rendered":"Support Woes?"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a><\/p>\n

A recent SSRD post<\/a>
\nforces me to ponder, instead of closing down parishes or allowing dioceses to  declare
\nbankruptcy to pay for the the abuse cases, perhaps the Catholic Church
\nshould let its famous, rock star level clerics endorse products
\nagain?  I remember with Pope John Paul II toured Mexico City a few
\nyears back, they sold “Papas Fritas” in honor of his visit.  More
\nmerch, more merch!<\/p>\n

**<\/p>\n

There’s this eternal internal debate about whether I grew up poor. And
\nI think that answer is no.  Sure, I did not have money for braces,
\nand my mom went into considerable debt to send me to debate camp, of
\nall kooky things, but at least debate camp was on the radar, and my
\ngrandmother subsidized my J. Crew habit back then.  It was always
\nabout feeling less well off than my relatives.<\/p>\n

Then again, the Chronicle<\/a> points out what it takes to eek out a living in the Bay Area<\/a>:<\/p>\n

In the Bay Area, her group found, a single adult needs to make $27,901 a
\nyear or $13.41 an hour to cover those expenses. A single parent with two
\nchildren needs $62,969 a year or $30.27 an hour. And a single wage earner in a
\nfamily where the other parent stays home — and provides child care —
\nwould have to make $55,740 or $26.80 an hour.<\/font><\/p>\n

<\/font><\/div>\n

The figure that it takes for the single parent surprises me since my
\nmom’s income when I was in high school and college was less than my
\ntuition and board at Hopkins.<\/p>\n

No, I still contend that I was lucky.<\/p>\n

**<\/p>\n

Edit: I just visited Technorati<\/a> because my referrer log showed that I had a hit from the search for “Folsom<\/a>.”  I didn’t realize that Technorati now includes tagged flikr<\/a> feeds in its search results.  Neato!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A recent SSRD post forces me to ponder, instead of closing down parishes or allowing dioceses to  declare bankruptcy to pay for the the abuse cases, perhaps the Catholic Church should let its famous, rock star level clerics endorse products again?  I remember with Pope John Paul II toured Mexico City a few years back, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legalese"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/121"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}