Word: caps
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...welfare reform in New Jersey. Five years ago, the state became a conservative favorite thanks to a tough new law ensuring that any woman who became pregnant while on welfare would not be given additional cash assistance for her new child. Advocates of the law, known as the family cap, called it a strike for personal responsibility, one that would force welfare parents to make the same family-planning decisions that working-class families do. Twenty-three other states followed suit...
...last week New Jersey learned of the measure's unforeseen consequences. According to a draft study prepared for the state health department by Rutgers University, the cap boosted New Jersey's abortion rate by an estimated 240 procedures a year. This "small but nontrivial" effect seemed to prove what antiabortion groups like the Catholic Conference have long warned: that some women having to choose between raising a child without cash benefits and having an abortion paid for by Medicaid will pick abortion. And the report is likely to become exhibit A for the American Civil Liberties Union...
...faulty methodology in the $1 million study. Governor Christine Todd Whitman, who had promised to revisit the law if it increased abortions, now sidesteps that pledge, saying the report is "only a draft." Conservative groups like the Heritage Foundation and the Family Research Council, which had lobbied for the cap to be made federal law despite the objections of other pro-life groups, avoided comment. But the hard questions aren't going away. Rutgers is reviewing its study, but researchers don't expect the results to change...
...have much to do with the girl-power theme of this briskly enchanting film, but it's a perky parting gift from the Disney folks. The R.-and-B. group 98[degrees] and Stevie Wonder trade harmonic and harmonica riffs with some sassy horns, and euphoria saturates the multiplex. Cap your soda cup before dancing out of the theater...
...young fund stars see their inexperience as (What else?) a virtue. Just ask John Potter, 29, a Wisconsin native who's been playing the market since 10th grade and has generated an 18% return in the past year at the $175 million Marshall Mid-Cap Value Fund. "We don't have any preconceived notions or emotional baggage," he says. "I know I'm not playing with paper money...