Word: caseload
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...Wisconsin State Fair had a welfare-caseload reduction contest, rural Marquette County (pop. about 13,000) would walk off with the blue ribbon. In a state that is fast shedding cases, Marquette's drop has been the steepest: down 91% in the past decade. And it's one of a handful of thinly populated counties that have got the number of "work-qualified" households on their welfare rolls down to a notable benchmark: zero...
...working as private attorneys. Federal judges last received a pay raise in 1993. Rehnquist, who earns a standard federal judgeship salary of $133,600 a year, argued that Congressional concerns about balancing the budget must not preclude a moderate increase for judges. Furthermore, he insisted that since the federal caseload is skyrocketing, more federal judges are needed to alleviate a seriously strained judicial system...
...entire six years of Elisa Izquierdo's life, it appears, lawsuits, special reports and government audits had been decrying a dangerous overload at the city agency. At week's end, the New York Times published a shocking internal memo from the Bronx office, dated Nov. 15, 1995, regarding the caseload. "Please encourage your workers to follow this simple mathematical equation," it read. "For every opening you should have two closings/transfers." But children are not numbers. And their suffering cannot be stopped by bureaucratic fiat. "The system is broken and needs to be fixed, but no one has the political will...
...loophole is so large that the entire welfare caseload could find the time to camp out there if they wanted to," Weld added...
Supporters of the education exemption reacted to the Governor's comments with anger, saying he was engaging in hyperbole and suggesting that Weld was interested more in relieving the welfare caseload than in helping aid recipients. The House responded by overriding Weld's veto...