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...provide cash assistance to more than 15 million people. One goal is to abolish the program of Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), which provides aid in a variety of forms to those who meet eligibility criteria. This means of assistance will be replaced by the dispersal of lump sums, "block grants" to states to use in assisting as they see fit those people who meet certain eligibility criteria...
Under this system, states would receive a lump sum of cash which they could then use in any way they wish in order to assist low income people. The New York Times reports that "the block grant would be set at $15.3 billion per year, equal to the amount spent by the federal government in 1994, with no allowance for changes in population or in the economy...
...look up Soldier Field. My old Analytic Geometry textbook, still flecked with insulation from the attic, has been sitting on my thigh like a lump of ice. By combining some formulas from it with the encyclopedia's stats...
...could be ended," Annette S. Zucco, programdirector of Cambridge WIC, said in an interviewyesterday. "They're just going to lump us into oneprogram and say 'Do it.' There won't be anystandards...
...door. He's here against his better judgment, since the Mainstreamliberalpress insists on misunderstanding him. "I'm not a hater, not one of the angry radio guys. I'm an entertainer with a conservative agenda who wouldn't have 20 million listeners if I spewed venom. Yet you liberals lump me in with all the others," he says, lumping me in with all the others. This is surprising, since I have a history of giving Rush the benefit of the doubt -- which he admits. But instead of finding him more sanguine about his place in the world -- which...