To: Gerald Grasso, FSW, OCSE, Hall of Records
From: David H. Weiner, President, CWA Local 1081
Date: April 7, 2008
Re: 157th CWA Local 1081 E-mail Trivia Contest Winner
Congratulations, you are last week's CWA Local 1081 Trivia Contest winner. Please contact CWA Local 1081 Secretary Treasurer Vera Winns at (973) 623-1081, or preferably by E-mail at vwinns@oel.state.nj.us, to collect your $50.00 prize.
You were the first to correctly answer all of the following questions:
- Driven by a painful mix of layoffs and rising food and fuel prices, the number of Americans receiving food stamps is projected to reach 28 million in the coming year, the highest level since the aid program began in the 1960s. Federal benefit costs are projected to rise to how many billion in the 2009 fiscal year from how many billion this year?
Answer: 36. 34.
- A famous op-ed columnist for major US newspaper recently asserted that the principle behind the Bush administration’s new proposal for financial reform is known as what type of a strategy? To be formally announced today, what is the strategy about?
Answer: “org chart”. It’s all about creating the appearance of responding to the current crisis, without actually doing anything substantive.
- What announcement that stunned our country was made by whom on this day in 1968?
Answer: On March 31, 1968, President Johnson stunned the country by announcing he would not run for another term of office.