Word: florio
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Tough love or tough luck. That's the choice that New Jersey welfare families faced after Governor Jim Florio signed a bill intended to get aid recipients out of the home and into the job market. The Family Development Act will eliminate extra payments to women who have additional children while on welfare and will require welfare parents to take part in job-training and education programs. At the same time, it will allow working mothers to earn up to 50% of their welfare-grant level with no loss in benefits. And in a reversal of previous rules...
...Webster case from Missouri, which only weakened Roe, is credited with giving Democrats Jim Florio and Douglas Wilder the edge in their narrow elections that fall...
Although his name did not appear on any ballot, New Jersey Governor Jim Florio was one of the week's biggest losers. Elected by a landslide two years ago, the tough-talking Democrat won praise for his willingness to use political capital to eliminate a $600 million budget deficit and introduce $2.8 billion in new state and income taxes. Florio believed increased spending on education and a soak-the-rich progressive tax structure would appeal to the middle class. Instead, outraged voters rejected his program...
Democrats lost 21 seats in the assembly and 10 seats in the senate, providing the Republicans with vetoproof majorities in both houses. According to an election-eve poll, more than half of those questioned said Governor Florio's policies were the major issue in the campaign. Republican leaders immediately announced a rollback in the sales tax from 7% to 6%. But faced with a potential deficit next year, they are unwilling to make any additional promises...
Republicans seized control of both houses of the New Jersey legislature in a campaign that became a referendum on the $2.8 billion tax increase that Gov. James Florio won last year...