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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...last few billion, however, proved the hardest to hide. So on Sept. 29, the House leadership revealed its intention to pay out the Earned Income Tax Credit, a program which rewards the working poor as they work additional hours, on a monthly basis rather than at the start of the year. This means that the payments for October, November, and December of the year 2000 would go on the fiscal year 2001 budget, turning about $9 billion in costs into the next Congress' problem. That means that GOP leaders can claim to have a $400 million surplus without touching Social...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Congress Bilks Poor | 10/6/1999 | See Source »

...over budget still isn't solved. Regardless of the problems it will cause for next year's budget, the proposal also has the immediate disadvantage of forcing the working poor to wait months for tax refunds that they have earned. The money from the EITC is often used to pay down debts or saved to generate interest, and to the working poor, if not to the government, a delay does mean...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Congress Bilks Poor | 10/6/1999 | See Source »

Mark N. Kramer, director of the Harvard Project on Cold War Studies, said that while the $600,000 the O'Neills paid for the archives was substantially less than the amount the Russian government initially demanded, it still was more than Harvard was otherwise willing to pay...

Author: By Eli M. Alper, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Declassified KGB Files Come to Lamont | 10/6/1999 | See Source »

Marshall's report found no misconduct on Harvard's part, but in 1997, a jury ruled differently and ordered Harvard to pay over $2 million in compensation to one of the guards. The jury found that the racial discrimination that Viatcheslav Abramian complained of seven years ago led to his dismissal...

Author: By Rachel P. Kovner and Erica B. Levy, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: SJC Nominee Led Controversial Harvard Probe | 10/5/1999 | See Source »

...response, Thompson called for a federal crackdown on fathers who fail to pay child support and attempt to escape their responsibilities by crossing state lines...

Author: By Alex B. Ginsberg, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Thompson Explains Welfare Policies | 10/5/1999 | See Source »

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