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...this country will face a dangerous rash of self-sorting. Jobless families, with little to anchor themselves in one place, will move to states with better services. The rich have little need for services and thus little reason to support them; they will stick together in states that will abolish services and entitlements designed for the needy. The nation's treasured middle class will split up along the borderline of need...
...plan, authored by MIT President Charles Vest, would abolish the Lowell Institute, a vocational and computer training school funded by MIT which has served middle-class Cambridge residents since...
...OUTFLOW: That could mean raise the retirement age from 65. And raise or abolish the early retirement age, now 62, at which recipients can collect partial benefits. Or institute a means-test denying full benefits to those with huge incomes from other sources. Or reduce annual cost of living increases. Or do them all. The general idea is to reduce the total of benefits payable and thus put off the evil day when the system crashes...
...district attorney of Philadelphia, crime control has always been his passion. "Arlen convinced us that we were the only ones fighting for the people," recalls Ed Rendell, his former assistant and now mayor of Philadelphia. "He convinced us we were the guardians at the gates of hell." Specter would abolish plea bargains and mandate life sentences for career criminals...
...House Ways and Means Committee will soon be presenting for consideration in Congress legislation aimed at overhauling welfare programs that provide cash assistance to more than 15 million people. One goal is to abolish the program of Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), which provides aid in a variety of forms to those who meet eligibility criteria. This means of assistance will be replaced by the dispersal of lump sums, "block grants" to states to use in assisting as they see fit those people who meet certain eligibility criteria...