Word: offsets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...income taxpayers, Clinton's plan expands the earned-income credit to offset the increases in energy costs. The program, which will cost an additional $6.6 billion over four years, gives workers credit for what they earned in jobs, as opposed to money they received from welfare or other government programs. But many taxpayers already fail to benefit from the current provision because they find the forms too complicated to fill...
Defense outlays will be curbed, but those cuts will be more than offset by the relentless rise of spending for entitlements like Medicare and for interest payment on the national debt. Bottom line: total spending will increase at an annual rate of 3%, roughly the equivalent of 1992's inflation rate but slower than last year's 4.4% spending growth...
Some women's friends' groups--including women's basketball, field hockey and soccer--have had to make large fundraising efforts to offset differences in contributions, many of which have been fairly successful, according to the report and coaches...
However, the report describes a foundation that though financially healthy, lacks the funds to offset huge discrepancies in donations by different friends' groups...
Jimmy Carter, the last liberal to serve as president, was also well intentioned. He, like Clinton, wanted to cut the growing budget deficit. He knew that he needed revenue to offset the spending programs on his liberal platform...