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Monday, July 15, 2013
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Tuesday
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Partly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of rain.
Enjoy some shade
Wednesday
HI: 96
LO: 70
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Mostly sunny with a 10 percent chance of rain.
Thursday
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HI: 97
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Medical and dental costs are among the most burdening and often inaccessible services that complicate the lives of low-income individuals and families.
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April Huston, a five-year food service employee at the University, has been living with impacted wisdom teeth for months and is struggling to find a way to pay for the surgery to extract the molars.
Friday
HI: 100
LO: 71
"Medical costs are a big issue," said David Burress, president of the Kansas Progress Institute in Lawrence. "On a scale of problems, if raising the minimum wage was a foothill, trying to regulate medical costs would be the Himalavas."
One of the most complex issues surrounding the problem of balancing wages and the cost of living lies in determining how to best regulate the minimum wage and regulate inflation as it affects the cost of goods and services in the long-term.
Mostly sunny with a 10 percent chance of rain. Hot and hot
Some University alumni, employees and Lawrence residents who rely on jobs that pay the state minimum wage and that do not offer health or dental insurance are experiencing first-hand the challenges of making ends meet while coping with medical issues.
Kansans struggle with insufficient minimum wage laws
JOSE MILITECH
STATE
editor@kansan.com
Minimum wage in Kansas falls far below the recommended living wage, according to a number of different groups, studies and organizations.
The Kansas Progress Institute in Lawrence, the Kansas Association of Community Action Programs and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have worked to identify and address the factors that contribute to poverty, low wages and the increasing cost of living in the state.
Clinic serves low-income patients but cannot do the particular surgery that she needs, and she was referred to a local dentist.
"I think it would be better if the government lowered (medical) costs or if part-time employees were given some kind of health benefits," Huston said. "I don't have benefits and it's going to cost me $2000. I didn't qualify for the dentist's credit plan. Instead of making payments I have to pay up front, which is hard."
Jonathan Robbins, a junior, works part-time as a circulation desk assistant at Watson Library.
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