Word: hards
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Welfare professionals have a term for these persistent welfare cases: the hard to serve. Many have backgrounds that employers shun: weak education, illiteracy, drug and alcohol abuse, mental-health problems and criminal records. Often they also have logistical obstacles, like transportation and child-care difficulties. And, some argue, many of them have the toughest barrier of all: they don't want to do work...
Today the hard to serve are the hottest topic in welfare reform--and the subject of a hard-fought ideological battle. To liberals--and the Clinton Administration--the answer is greater investment in job training, substance-abuse counseling and other programs to help them overcome their various obstacles and get to work. At the same time, liberals have begun calling on the Federal Government to reconsider a central tenet of the 1996 reforms: that virtually every welfare recipient can and should be in the workforce. "It flies in the face of common sense," says University of Michigan public policy professor...
...Because those rules are so strict, it's hard on kids who make one little mistake," one student complains...
...change in his couch after concentrating on the Hawkeye State, a good showing could be a reprieve from bankruptcy, and a poor one likely a death blow. John McCain, meanwhile, skipped the event completely, calling it a "scam," and in the run-up to the vote it?s not hard to see why an avatar of campaign finance reform would find the event distasteful. The event itself is just a fund-raiser for the Iowa GOP, held a full six months before the state?s caucus. Candidates ply farmers with barbecue, musical acts, gold pins, luxury bus rides...
...tell" would have some implementation nightmares. And while the Pentagon isn?t ready to give up on the compromise policy issued by President Clinton in 1994, it?s coming out with a new set of guidelines that it hopes will make the feckless policy a little less hard for soldiers, gay and straight, to live with. The main complaint: Soldiers who complained to superiors about gay-bashing - soldiers who may or may not have actually been homosexual - often found themselves targets of investigations into their sex lives that were no less harassing. The Pentagon will try to rectify that...