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...welfare reform bill passed by the House of Representatives on May 16 has serious flaws surrounding it—both in its content and in the partisan, heavy-handed way it was passed. Though some of the job-creation programs for welfare recipients are worthwhile, the Senate should make several substantive amendments...
...Welfare reform has had some success since 1996 in cutting welfare rolls and moving recipients to work, but many of those changes occurred during a period of sustained economic prosperity. In these less fortunate times, instead of curtailing benefits, the government should be more compassionate to those in need. The act would have states create commendable workfare programs for welfare recipients who cannot find employment in the private sector. People would have to work a minimum number of hours to keep receiving benefits; drug and alcohol rehabilitation, childcare and other programs would be available in the remaining time. This program...
Macani Toungara ’02, who spearheaded the campaign to write the letter to the dean’s office, said that even if the yearbook and dean’s office were to successfully contact every recognized student group, there would still be need for reform in the way the yearbook chooses groups to include...
...Street also dreads a lengthy process to resolve the analyst flap, which, layered on top of the accounting concerns springing from the Enron scandal, is driving investors away. To help regain their confidence, brokerage firms are making a show of efforts to reform. Last week UBS Warburg initiated its coverage of JetBlue Airways--a firm whose IPO it co-managed last month--by advising investors to "reduce" their holdings. It was apparently a pre-emptive move, to show regulators that UBS Warburg is indeed capable of using the word sell...
...tied to specific transactions, that analysts not be permitted to share draft research reports with clients or prospective clients, and that analysts more visibly disclose conflicts of interest. There wasn't a peep of dissent on Wall Street, which, unhappy with Spitzer's bare-knuckled approach to reform, is openly begging for remedies from the industry-friendly SEC. Indeed, the big brokerages uniformly embraced a follow-up investigation the SEC announced two weeks ago, in hopes that Spitzer's state office would yield to a federal authority. But Spitzer isn't backing down. "I'm not going to go away...