For the undocumented immigrants, the big PRIORITY is just to GET out from the shadows, be able to get a driver's license, buy an airplane ticket and STOP worrying about sudden deportation. But for the country as a whole, it's crucial that everybody have a CITIZEN's stake in the nation's WELFARE.
Social-enterprise employees earn wages and pay TAXES, reducing their recidivism RATES and dependence on government assistance. They also RECEIVE crucial on-the-job TRAINING, job-readiness skills, literacy instruction and, if necessary, the counseling and mental-health services they NEED to move into the mainstream workforce.
As a kid in the eighties, I didn't NEED much disposable income. I went to Catholic school - white shirt, plaid skirt - so fashion CHOICES were limited. But YOUTH finds a way. For me and my schoolmates, neon argyle socks were a crucial barometer of coolness. HAIR ribbons, too, and they didn't come cheap.
Those in the metro-Atlanta AREA KNOW how crucial the INVESTMENTS in our infrastructure and TRANSPORTATION systems are to improving our communities.
I want to PLAY ROLES where my absence should be felt. It may not NECESSARILY be a lead role, but my CHARACTER should be crucial to the show.
Paul Goldschmidt, who gave me the CONFIDENCE to LEAD as one of the game's greatest players, acknowledged that what I had to SAY was valuable to my TEAMMATES and crucial to winning.