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...Frasier star says he'll one day marry Tammi Baliszewski, "the gentle breeze in which I flourish today." Unfortunately, the wedding's off, and the gentle breeze is writing her own gale-force tell-all. Grammer also claims that Cerlette Lamme, whom he gallantly calls "not the neediest woman I've ever been with but needy enough," got high and lost his dog, Goose. Lamme is suing for libel and invasion of privacy. Not one to dwell on past errors, Grammer spent much of last week with CAMILLE DONATACCI, a Club MTV dancer and former soft-core porn actress...
...Children's Defense Fund." In the 1970s, Edelman helped defeat a proposal to turn Head Start funding over to the states. Today, with devolution again the coin of the realm, Edelman, a child of the segregated South, remains deeply skeptical that all states will voluntarily care for their neediest citizens. "Where you can see a general need everywhere," she contends, "you try to have a national solution...
Critics of devolution argue that these safety nets were federalized in the 1960s and '70s because states had failed to provide a floor of support for the neediest. Good intentions aside, the political realities in state capitols haven't changed much since. afdc benefit levels, which are set by the states, have fallen on average 47% in real terms since 1970. There's reason to fear that these trends would worsen if states had to foot the whole bill. Under today's system of federal matching grants, for example, Mississippi thinks twice about cutting a dollar from welfare because...
Gingrich, however, believes the spirit of private charity will help the neediest cases when the government reduces welfare spending. He buttresses this tenet by borrowing heavily from the work of Marvin Olasky, a professor of journalism at the University of Texas and the editor of a Christian weekly newsmagazine. Olasky's thesis is that giving aid indiscriminately to poor people actually destroys those people, all the while turning taxpayers against the welfare programs. He advocates replacing welfare with private care giving, so that only the "deserving" poor are helped. A giant welfare state can't make the distinction, Gingrich argues...
...most fundamental change in the American social contract sinceFDR. "We are sweeping away a destructive system and we are putting in a system that can work," said Rep. Clay Shaw (R-Fla.). Among the basics to go: school lunches, foster care support and child care to the country's neediest women and children. Parents would be required to work after two years on welfare, and would be cut off from benefits after five years; all able-bodied food stamp recipients must work. President Clinton, calling the measure "weak on work and tough on children," seized on its lack of training...