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Getting On Government Mail List Keeps A Lot Of People Very Busy
A columnist describes his daughter creating a private employment network by using a summer internship at the Department of Transportation. Mailings from the agency multiply at her Oberlin College address, hiring locals to process and readdress mail, and funding families as a side effect. The piece satirically credits a private system with boosting poverty relief by mobilizing government communications machinery.
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Washington
Nixon
Good Samaritan
Peace Corps
Job Corps
Vista
National Alliance of
Department of Transportation
Oberlin College
Ohio
Transportation Department
Oberlin
Post Office Department
College
Alexandria
Virginia
Trainor
John A. Volpe