Word: hirings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this, and now you got it," Clinton said. "There is not enough money around to create enough public jobs to solve this welfare problem." The President said that means states need to use federal block grants to supplement wages paid by private employers, making it easier for companies to hire welfare recipients. "We need to break this responsibility down to think about how we can make it a good deal for the business community ? so we don't wind up with a bunch of nightmares saying, 'We passed all these tough laws and now here are all these people...
...hoping that the relevant administrators will do everything in their power to put Harvard back on top next year. Pump those dollars out of the alumni. Hire hundreds of new faculty members to make the student-faculty ratio smaller. Put more classes into the Core to cut down on class size...
...without a job for every 6 people who had one." Because of factors beyond their control, even well-qualified applicants from inner-city neighborhoods were unable to find work. Some employers told Wilson's research assistants that an address in a ghetto neighborhood was considered sufficient reason not to hire an applicant. The new welfare law does nothing to change that reality...
...tries to dodge the controversy surrounding the resignation of his top political advisor, Dick Morris. Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala said the President's initiative would include $3 billion in grants to create jobs in high-poverty areas and $500 million in tax credits to businesses that hire people who have been on welfare for at least 18 months. The proposal is part of an effort by Clinton to allay the fears of many Democrats that the new welfare bill signed by Clinton will drive hundreds of thousands of children into poverty. The President also is expected...
...White House aides last week were wondering if they could get away with cutting capital-gains taxes for middle-class people who sell their primary residence for less than $500,000, as well as with adding a tax credit for employers who hire welfare recipients. Democratic polling showed that the President slipped at least 5 points after the Republican Convention. "We'll regain every one of those points by the end of our convention," says Clinton strategist Dick Morris, "and we hope to have a 20-point lead by Labor...