Word: reliefs
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During the past year, the price of oil has been on a roller-coaster ride that has taken it from $25 a bbl. down to below $10 and then back up to almost $18. But the wild ride appears to be over for the time being, much to the relief of producers and consumers alike. When Treasury Secretary James Baker met with his Saudi Arabian counterpart Mohammed Ali Abdul Khail in Khail's country last week, the two finance officials seemed to think that worldwide crude prices had finally settled at a mutually agreeable level. The current price still provides...
...parsimony has failed to push people off the relief rolls and into jobs, ! and the manifold social evils associated with AFDC have only been getting worse. Poverty rates have generally risen since the late '70s, and the rise has been especially rapid among the children the system was designed to help. Welfare mothers who rear children who in turn go on relief are a core element of the so-called underclass. David Ellwood, a Harvard authority on welfare, figures that a quarter of all AFDC recipients have received benefits, off and on, for ten years or more...
These statistics and many others are contained in the new Mission Handbook, an authoritative volume of data and analysis to be issued this month by a subunit of World Vision, a major evangelical relief agency based in Monrovia, Calif. The data show sizable increases in activity since the last Handbook, published eight years...
Once again, Daniel Patrick Moynihan is sounding the alarm. While other politicians talk moderately of reform, the Democratic Senator from New York wants to scrap the basic federal welfare program, Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC). That system, established 50 years ago to provide temporary relief for widows, was never meant to address the long-term problem of poor children in broken homes, he argues, and it certainly has proved incapable of coping with the "changed reality" of a country with 3.8 million poor, single-parent families...
...United Nations Relief and Works Agency, which sponsored the relief mission, also donated two truckloads of food supplies to Shiite Moslems living in slums around the camp, police said...