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Single parents were expected to work full time yet stay home with our kids, be educated yet not abuse federal assistance, and somehow afford rent, bills, food, clothes, and gas by ourselves. And heaven forbid we ever need to hold up a register line to pull out a WIC check.
Lilian T. James (Meet Me Halfway)
The remains of the wall built by WIC to defend its colony against Native Americans and British are today paved over by the world’s most famous street – Wall Street.
Yuval Noah Harari (Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind)
All they saw were the food stamps, the large WIC paper coupons that bought us eggs, cheese, milk, and peanut butter. What they didn’t see was the balance, which hovered around $200 depending on my income, and that it was all the money I had for food. I had to stretch it to the end of each month until the balance was re-upped after the beginning of the month.
Stephanie Land (Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive)
the Dutch West Indies Company, or WIC, plied the Atlantic. In order to control trade on the important Hudson River, WIC built a settlement called New Amsterdam on an island at the river’s mouth. The colony was threatened by Indians and repeatedly attacked by the British, who eventually captured it in 1664. The British changed its name to New York. The remains of the wall built by WIC to defend its colony against Indians and British are today paved over by the world’s most famous street – Wall Street.
Yuval Noah Harari (Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind)
While VOC operated in the Indian Ocean, the Dutch West Indies Company, or WIC, plied the Atlantic. In order to control trade on the important Hudson River, WIC built a settlement called New Amsterdam on an island at the river’s mouth. The colony was threatened by Native Americans and repeatedly attacked by the British, who eventually captured it in 1664. The British changed its name to New York. The remains of the wall built by WIC to defend its colony against Native Americans and British are today paved over by the world’s most famous street – Wall Street.
Yuval Noah Harari (Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind)
Not that there’s anything wrong with WIC or forties, but is there any reason you’re making assumptions about my drinking habits or financial status?
Alyssa Cole (When No One Is Watching)
As one of the German employees of the WIC in Brazil noted, “the Jews, more than anyone else, were in a desperate situation and therefore, preferred to die sword in hand than face their fate under the Portuguese yoke: the flames.”32 The Amsterdam Jews showed their support of the Jews in Brazil by helping to finance a privateering campaign that captured approximately 220 Portuguese vessels, effectively imposing a blockade on
Jeffrey Gorsky (Exiles in Sepharad: The Jewish Millennium in Spain)
The remains of the wall built by WIC to defend its colony against Indians and British are today paved over by the world’s most famous street – Wall Street.
Yuval Noah Harari (Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind)
The local slave brokerage was also dominated by Jews, although the importation of slaves from Africa was monopolized by the WIC.22
Jeffrey Gorsky (Exiles in Sepharad: The Jewish Millennium in Spain)
you can expect to pay roughly a 40% tax over the course of your life.  40% OF YOUR WORKING LIFE will be spent working up the money to pay taxes.  Normally you would expect that 40% to go to government programs that benefit you (defense, roads, police, etc.), however, in reality 70% of that money goes to other people (in the form of welfare, food stamps, WIC, health care, etc.).  Mathematically translated this means out of a 50 year career, 14 of those years are literally you being a slave to other people.
Aaron Clarey (Bachelor Pad Economics)