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...that many women mistakenly thought they'd be cut off from welfare altogether if they had another kid," says Michael Laracy, who studied welfare policy for New Jersey for 17 years. "When they realized they'd only lose the additional cash payments but could still get food stamps and Medicaid, they reported their new births...
...weeks ago, the House approved appropriations legislation that prevents women in the armed forces and their dependents from obtaining abortions at military hospitals overseas, even if they pay for them. In jeopardy too are Medicaid funds that now may be used to provide abortions to poor women who suffer rape and incest, as well as the use of federal family-planning money to provide abortion counseling. Antiabortion legislators will also attempt to restore a series of prohibitions that Clinton overturned in his first week in office--among them, bans on fetal-tissue research and importation of RU-486, the French...
...URBAN INSTITUTE STUDY CONSIDERED the case of a hypothetical Pennsylvania woman with two children who received $4,836 in AFDC, $2,701 in food stamps and $3,000 in Medicaid benefits, for a total of $10,537 in cash and benefits. If she took a full-time job at minimum wage, her family would gain $9,516 in earnings before taxes and lose Medicaid, AFDC and one-third of her food stamps. Moreover, she would have to find and pay for day care. Welfare recipients who take part in job-training and education programs are eligible for subsidized care...
...John Kasich (R-Ohio), as his party rammedits historic plan to balance the federal budget by 2002through the House (239-194) and Senate (54-46) in votes that fell along party lines. The plan includes $245 billion in tax cuts and $894 billion in spending cuts that hit Medicare, Medicaid and social services heavily. Action now moves to the appropriations committees where,TIME's Karen Tumultyreports, "the real work is already being done." The triumphant GOP package, she adds, falls short of promises by Kasich and others to eliminate a spate of federal agencies and offer $300 billion...
...brand of balanced-budget politics, President Clinton went on national TV to unveil his version of a no-deficit plan. The key elements: a balanced budget by the year 2005 (three years later than the G.O.P. proposes); $1.1 trillion in spending cuts, including sizable bites out of Medicare and Medicaid (but far smaller than the G.O.P.'s); and targeted middle-class tax cuts, especially for families saddled with college costs (also smaller than the G.O.P.'s tax breaks). Jubilant Republican leaders cheered the President's political turnabout, then carped that his plan fell short. Congressional Democrats, many of whom have...