Word: helping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Under the new rules, Wells' life changed drastically--but not the way reformers intended. She did give up welfare last year, but not to work. Instead she lives with her mother. She takes the occasional odd job and gets help from her children's father, who kicks in support "whenever he can." Health care is tough--"I have a pile of bills this high," she says--but she found a hospital emergency room that treats her kids even when she can't pay. Wells succeeded in bucking a major national trend. She didn't join the millions of Americans...
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...
...said she believed Hehir would be able to help the student body articulate a shared sense of purpose in the wake of Thiemann's departure...
...resident reported to CPD that at 8:30 p.m., while sitting on a bench at 1414 Mass. Ave., she was approached by a male who offered her an alcoholic beverage. The suspect began talking, then grabbed her. The victim began yelling at the suspect and summoned her friends to help her. A search of the area found no results...
...They wanted the jobs, we wanted to help them get into the union," said Howard Soep, the company's owner. "And we needed people...