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...analysis by the Congressional Budget Office concludes that states will receive $12 billion less over six years than they'll need to maintain current benefit levels and job training funds. Without federal mandates and without money to implement optional state programs, states will save money by throwing recipients off the welfare rolls...
...figure is just what the White House needed," says TIME's James Carney. "It shoots down the Republican argument that the economy, though it is growing, would be growing faster without Clinton's tax increases. If the economy is doing well, Clinton will take credit for it and will benefit on the campaign trail." While Clinton is well-positioned on a wide range of campaign issues, from crime and anti-terrorism tactics to welfare reform, education and economic growth, his strongest campaign card is his somnolent adversary. "By traditional measures, Clinton is in a very strong position," says Carney...
...complacent in the knowledge of American technological superiority, shielded here from foreign terrorism for decades--even realize how perilous the state of airport and airplane security is? For years safety measures, many of which are now standard elsewhere in the world, have languished here--victims of cost-benefit analysis, competing business interests and glacial government bureaucracy...
While Weld emphasized how Republican-led regulation reform would benefit biotech firms, Kerry argued that program cutting would hurt the delicate industry...
RICHARD STENGEL, after working at TIME as a staff writer and associate editor, became an occasional contributor in 1989. It was a happy accommodation that gave us the benefit of his talents while freeing him for larger projects--like the two-year collaboration with Nelson Mandela that produced Mandela's 1994 autobiography, Long Walk to Freedom. Now Stengel is back as a senior writer, traveling with the presidential candidates and taking the nation's pulse. This week's contribution: a retort to Robert Putnam's 1995 essay "Bowling Alone" called "Bowling Together." But Stengel hasn't lost his appetite...