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...press conference, Clinton tried to assuage his party's concerns saying the bill would give welfare families the opportunity to "succeed at home and at work." Conceding that the bill was "far from perfect," Clinton said he would try to change several provisions that he felt were too harsh, such as a provision to prohibit some legal immigrants from receiving welfare benefits. Nevertheless, he maintained that the bill represented a "step forward for our country and our values." The bill will save the federal government nearly $56 billion in the next six years, and fundamentally changes the welfare system...
This will happen unless the President--and the public--faces up to the real truths of welfare reform: that changing the nature of the system requires large investments in changing both the opportunities and the incentives that millions of Americans face; that such changes will inevitably produce some harsh consequences; and that welfare, however reformed, cannot solve all the problems of the nation's underclass any more than welfare, unreformed, is to blame for all of them...
...Cuban business deals, vow to do so regardless. Although the Toronto government has not endorsed the boycott, it says that it should be taken seriously because it has significant popular support. But that resolve may not last: "The boycott will probably not have much of an impact once the harsh Canadian winter rolls around," says TIME's Gavin Scott. "Their enthusiasm to go to Florida will be undiminished." The Helms-Burton law allows American citizens and corporations to sue foreign companies that use confiscated American assets in Cuba. The U.S. is also banning executives, their families and shareholders of those...
...starting to question whether this is going a little bit too far, whether this is a little harsh for the incident that occurred," said Friedberg, "but I'm sure the D.A.'s know what they're doing and I leave it in their hands...
...bulk of the day. But now I know what I had left out of all of my childhood dreams about having a career and homemaking. Whereas in my fifth-grade mind, Career Woman perhaps had a valet to pick up after her, I am now facing the harsh reality that when I start work, I am still going to have all the housework to do in July and August, only with even less time to do what I do now. And, more importantly, when next year is over and I finally do become Career Woman, I will have an ever...