Word: moneys
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...billions of dollars in government programs are needed to prepare the hard to serve for work. "There's a great irony to that argument," says Douglas Besharov, a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. "Welfare reform has already accomplished a 40%-to-50% decline in the rolls without spending money on job training...
...battle over the hard to serve is being waged now in Congress in a multibillion-dollar fight over welfare funding. The 1996 act guaranteed the states $16.4 billion in block grants annually. But with welfare rolls plunging around the country, much of that money has gone unspent--and congressional Republicans are talking about taking back at least $4 billion. That would be a "big mistake," Clinton declared last week in Chicago. He'd like to see the money spent on the millions of people "who could move from welfare to work if they had more training, if they had transportation...
Amid all the dilapidation, there are gaudy, anomalous explosions of affluence--huge, multistory palaces offering KARAOKE MASSAGE in neon letters, and ads in the local paper for Harry Winston jewels. Much of the money comes, of course, from overseas investors who are eager to make a killing out of need and are gambling that the economy can only improve. "This is the first time since I came here in 1992 when I can feel truly confident of making a profit," says a Singaporean businessman sipping pumpkin soup with gold leaf in it (in a hotel where even the telephone receivers...
After learning that many unionized employees working on the same project as Everett workers were earning far more money for the same jobs, all 24 of Everett's employees had signed cards indicating their desire to join the union...
...full six months before the state?s caucus. Candidates ply farmers with barbecue, musical acts, gold pins, luxury bus rides to the polls; they?ll even pay your $25 entrance fee if you vote for them. It?s the first indignation of an election cycle over-stuffed with money as it is, and in twenty years, the event has never, ever correctly predicted the nation?s next President. Then again, it?s also never been like this...