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Officials of the Massachusetts and Washington programs see such criticism as % unfounded. The programs, they say, are designed only to create jobs. If new competition is the by-product, the officials contend, what right-thinking capitalist can argue with that? And while starting a business cannot be a cure-all for U.S. joblessness, it offers at least some out-of-work Americans an opportunity to trade an unemployment check for a paycheck...
Inevitably, the new patch will not be able to cure most smokers. According to last week's report, 26% of those wearing the device actually succeeded in abstaining for six months, as opposed to 12% of those using a placebo patch. Still, for smokers the choice seems clear: a 1 in 4 chance of quitting successfully, or the same odds of dying of a tobacco-related disease if they...
California's initiative follows the lead set by Michigan last October, when Republican Governor John Engler threw 90,000 "able-bodied" adults off the welfare rolls in an effort to close a projected $1 billion budget gap. But Engler's "solution" has produced more chaos than cure. Michigan's unemployment rate is greater than 9%, and even highly qualified workers are finding it hard to get a job. In the wake of Engler's edict, thousands of welfare recipients have lost their apartments; seven people who were disqualified from receiving welfare have died from exposure this winter...
...second count also seems to hold true: Bush's only proposal to cure the economy is to cut the capital gains tax rate, a strategy that would lodge the middle class even deeper into recession while giving rich people the opportunity to get richer...
NATION: Call for a Cure...