Word: movement
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...focus of the reform movement, and the central problem, is AFDC. It is not the only welfare program; the Reagan Administration has issued a much disputed count of 59 federally assisted plans that it considers welfare. Nor is AFDC the biggest; Medicaid accounts for nearly three times as much spending. But AFDC is the principal program that gives cash to people who are neither sick nor disabled; they qualify solely because they have children they cannot support. As such, it is the program that most people think of when they use the word welfare...
...central idea of the reform movement is a "new social contract" between government and welfare recipient. That concept is not just a vague metaphor: a project in California requires AFDC applicants to sign individual contracts pledging to return to school, enroll in training programs or look for jobs. The welfare-reform report that the National Governors' Association is expected to approve this month calls for making such a system nationwide...
...Terry Anderson, the chief Middle East correspondent for the Associated Press, and Thomas Sutherland, a dean at the American University of Beirut, defiantly warned that its captives would be killed if the U.S. attacked. Sheik Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, the spiritual leader of Hizballah, the pro-Iranian Party of God movement, personally challenged the Sixth Fleet. "What can they do, destroy Beirut?" he demanded. "They cannot do that. The Americans are welcome . . . If I am on their hit list, then that is an honor...
...fulfilling a promise that he had allegedly made last November in connection with the freeing of Hostage David Jacobsen, a former hospital administrator at the American University of Beirut. They claimed that he had pledged to arrange the release of 17 members of a largely Shi'ite movement who are imprisoned in Kuwait but failed...
...Using the work of Black Sociologists Kenneth Clark and E. Franklin Frazier, Moynihan contended that the growing number of one-parent families living on welfare was preventing blacks from achieving true equality in American society. If the trend did not stop, he charged, the triumphs of the civil rights movement might be dissipated. The Moynihan report became a lightning rod for ideological fury. Critics faulted the study's methods, but they seemed most upset by the author's use of provocative expressions like a "tangle of pathology" to describe the black family breakdown...