Word: adopters
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WASHINGTON, D.C: President Clinton is considering a $21 million federal program to encourage more families to adopt children. Under the program, states would receive $10 million for "technical assistance" in finding children a permanent home, $10 million for identifying "barriers" to adoption and developing new foster care policies, plus $1 million toward creating public awareness campaigns on adoption. The funds will be provided by turning federal subsidies for foster care into "bonuses" for states, a Health and Human Services Department official told Congress Thursday. The White House is also advocating that children remain in foster care no longer than...
...extortion. People who in the U.S. would be considered criminals and terrorists in Latin America become "guerrilla fighters," "rebels" or even "freedom fighters." What is Peru to do to solve the hostage crisis? Release 450 violent criminals, so that they can resume their narcotrafficking activities? Or worse yet, adopt a communist economic program similar to Cuba's? These demands are irrational. ALFONSO MONTERO Hanover, New Hampshire...
...more on nationwide political shifts. The Republicans held their own conference in 1994 to ideologically mobilize their freshmen representatives in an attempt to ram the Contract with America through Congress in 100 days. Their legislative failure and Newt Gingrich's political freefall have led the GOP to attempt to adopt a more centrist demeanor...
...income. To help close the spending gap between this formula and the earlier one, Thompson will use an extra $25 million in federal money for 1997 that the state had earned from reductions in its welfare rolls during recent years. "We're leading the country. Nobody has tried to adopt a plan of our magnitude that both eliminates welfare and makes a commitment to quality child care," he says. "We don't have all the answers. But what we've done is attempt to level the speed bumps that we have anticipated...
...result of this bill, President Robert M. Hyman '98 will urge the Corporation to adopt CERES policies in the future...