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What this bill really is talking about, in terms very tangible and imaginable, is starvation and homelessness in the name of reform, unemployment and despair in the name of reform, a downward spiral towards devolution in the name of reform and, in the words of Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-N.Y.), a "social calamity" in the name of reform. If this be reform, then give me the status...
...needy and transfer much authority to the 50 states. The reforms are expected to save almost $10 billion a year for the next six years, much of that by placing time limits on welfare benefits and food stamps. Opposition to the bill, led by Democrat Daniel Patrick Moynihan of New York, focused on several studies that found a million children will fall into poverty as a result. President Clinton plans to sign the legislation...
...notion that better-funded charities can handle the job, meanwhile, may be fanciful. New York Democrat Daniel Patrick Moynihan, one of the Senate's welfare wise men, says that 30 years ago a proposal like Alexander's might have been possible. But no more. "Sixty-seven percent of the kids in Detroit are on AFDC in the course of a single year," he says. "The Catholic bishops will tell you they can't take care of that." Worse, Alexander's plan could balloon the deficit. His charity tax credit, much of which rewards people for gifts they'd make anyway...
Rudenstine said that he met with several members of Congress, including Sen. James Jeffords (R-Vt.), Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska), all of who are members of committees relating to academic funding...
...Moynihan proposal claimed that the budget crisis was, in his words, "easily fixed." What needed fixing, he said, was the Consumer Price Index, or CPI. By simply subtracting a single percentage point from the index published monthly by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Moynihan declared, the Treasury would save $634 billion over the next 10 years, partly in reduced cost of living adjustments to people who collect entitlement checks. Moynihan's idea, in various forms, has long been bandied about by economists. But now it has caught the attention of both Democrats and Republicans. Both sides are heading...