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...move to slash children's disability is in part budget driven: the government estimates that the new eligibility rules could save $4.7 billion over six years. But the program's critics contend it has been abused by families whose children are not truly disabled. "The standards are vague and easily met," says Representative Jim McCrery, a Louisiana Republican and supporter of the new rules. "Some people regard it as just a super welfare program." The assault on children's SSI began three years ago, when a spate of news reports carried charges that parents were coaching children...
...Mount Olive, a white parishioner would not let a group from the black congregation in to practice a Kwanza ceremony. But Mount Olive has since started a race-relations workshop involving both the white Lutheran and black Baptist congregations--a sign, most St. Louisans involved in church planting contend, that this kind of roof sharing can be a force for racial cooperation. "The first black baptized here I baptized six or seven years ago, and some of the people literally went into shock," says Paul Powell, retired pastor of Kingshighway Baptist Church. "It took some doing, but these old southside...
...years. Under the Republican-proposed measure, Congress would tighten its tax belt by offering American families a $500 per child tax credit, across-the-board reductions in capital gains and estate taxes and a $10,000 deduction for education expenses paid through special investment accounts. House Democrats contend the bill is a classic Republican sell-out to the rich, while falling $4 billion short of the education-related tax breaks promised to the White House in the balanced budget deal. Democratic lawmakers, however, take a somewhat rosier view of the Republican tax agenda in the Senate, due for a vote...
Other professors contend that the gap between science and non-science grades has leveled...
...Democrats are deeply suspicious of the plan's supposed windfall, arguing that only those who have money can afford to save it. ""Their program attracts only the well-off," said Dick Gephardt, "while the sicker and poorer people are left behind." The cost of treating those needier patients, opponents contend, will quickly drive up Medicare premiums when healthier seniors are allowed to squirrel away unused Medicare funds. To make sure that the test is meaningful, the White House promises to make sure the pilot program enrolls a representative slice of Medicare recipients...