Financial aid law criticized Cleaned-up former drug users unfairly penalized

From: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | Date: March 13, 2004| Author: GREG WINTER | Copyright information

Financial aid law criticized

Cleaned-up former drug users unfairly penalized, critics say

By GREG WINTER New York Times

Saturday, March 13, 2004

New York -- Given that she had been thrown out of the house by 13 for declaring herself a lesbian, spent her teenage years sleeping on subway trains and rotting piers and yet still managed to get her GED, Laura Melendez figured she had kept her nose pretty clean.

Sure, there had been a few arrests for smoking marijua...

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