Word: faithfully
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first wave of the new faith-based approach to poverty came at the state level, where some social-services departments began matching welfare recipients with participating churches. In Mississippi, Governor Kirk Fordice's Faith and Families program has paired 504 welfare families with 338 churches, which help them with everything from studying for the high school equivalency exam to honing job-interview skills. Michigan's welfare officials have hired two umbrella religious groups to work with more than 100 churches on a similar program. Welfare recipients aren't required to attend church, but the idea is that the church will...
...quickest to take up the possibilities offered by charitable choice. Last December, Governor George W. Bush directed state agencies to include religious institutions in the operation of their programs. In June, Bush signed legislation clearing the way for religious organizations to provide government-funded drug treatment, day care and faith-based prison ministries. Texas is the only state to allow a private Christian group, Watergate figure Charles ("Chuck") Colson's Prison Fellowship, to operate a voluntary prison-prerelease program. Bush also proposed privatizing the state's welfare system and allowing churches in effect to act as local welfare-service agencies...
...prime article of faith among the new mayors is that city employees must become more efficient. Rendell, a Democrat and a tough-talking former prosecutor, is widely credited with saving Philadelphia by going eyeball-to-eyeball with the city's powerful public-employee unions shortly after he took office in 1992. Rendell offered workers a contract that froze wages for 33 months and cut back on paid holidays. After a 16-hour strike, the unions capitulated. Under Rendell, a city that was cited five years ago by City and State magazine for setting "the standard for municipal distress...
...think we have to trust the University as a good faith negotiator," said PBHA Secretary Amanda Spector...
...pockets of the population. The New York City school system is among the most segregated in the nation. Workfare might be making the streets cleaner, but street-cleaning is not exactly the sort of job you can build a life around. What exactly are those without jobs, skills or faith supposed to do in this insanely prosperous, well-heeled city...