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...program last summer, involving the Department of Health, Education and Welfare's 6,000 Washington employees, produced 216 raw hits. Of these, 77 were found to be totally ineligible for welfare, 39 more were receiving excessive payments, and the remaining 100 were judged fully eligible. Based on those figures, HEW expects to find in the current search 10,000 to 12,000 Government workers who are chiseling the welfare system out of from $10 million to $24 million annually. Chiselers face possible prosecution, having to repay illegal benefits, and loss of their jobs...
...over Jerry Brown in the 1976 California Democratic primary, this sort of language compels one who regards oneself as a liberal to think about trying to find a new man. To be sure, Carter's appointments have been sound from the liberal perspective. The names of Joseph Califano at HEW, Michael Pertschuk at FTC, and Andrew Young at the U.N. immediately come to mind. But it is policy, not appointments, which shapes the course of nations. The Democratic Party has not traditionally accepted a defeatist philosophy of government, a philosophy that Carter seems to be adopting. The year 1980, therefore...
...doctor to decide if the risks of the drug exceed its benefits. Especially in the case of cancer patients, marijuana may be the only way that acceptable treatment can be endured, and therefore any risks which marijuana may carry with it should be acceptable. Even HEW, in their 1975 report, concluded: "Like everything else (marijuana) should be used for its beneficial effects and avoided for its noxious aspects...
...weeks before he filed in 1974 to run for the House from northern Connecticut's Sixth District. Before that, he earned a master's degree in urban affairs at Boston College, worked with Boston street gangs for the U.S. Office of Education, was the first director of HEW's Office of Students and Youth, was a Senate aide to Walter Mondale and headed Ralph Nader's organization in Connecticut. Now a member of the House-Senate energy conference committee, he has led the fight to keep tight controls on natural gas prices and reform utility rates...
...evidence supports former associate professor of nutrition Dr. Phin Cohen's charges that the SPH misused federal research funds--charges that HEW is currently investigating...