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Social Security spends $700,000 on Phoenix conference: Airfare, hotel entertainment, dancers...

Jul. 16, 2009
Social Security spends $700,000 on Phoenix conference: Airfare, hotel entertainment, dancers...(First headline, 3rd story, link)Related stories:HIRING! 'Grassroots' work to promote Obama's healthcare pays $11-16 per hour...Massachusetts in Suit Over Cost of Universal Care...
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S.S. execs spend $700K on Ariz. trip

PHOENIX, July 15 (UPI) -- Nearly 700 U.S. Social Security Administration executives attended a conference at a plush Phoenix hotel last week, ABC News reported Wednesday.
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Lori Anne Madison, 6, competes in Scripps National Spelling Bee
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Lori Anne Madison, 6, of Woodbridge, Virginia, spells out the letters in her word as she competes during the opening round of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, May 30, 2012, in National Harbor, Maryland. Madison, the youngest known qualifier in the history of the contest, correctly spelled the word "dirigible*", a lighter-than-air aircraft, to advance. UPI/Mike Theiler