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...economy. Non-citizen immigrants will have their food stamps taken away from them starting Monday ? forcing the 1 million who currently use them to go hungry, while many millions more lose their safety net. As last year's federal welfare reform starts to bite, TIME New York correspondent Elaine Rivera says that "immigrants are basically being told, 'It's okay for you to be here and work, but don't expect to be treated on an equitable level if you are going through hard times...
...liberty, happiness and the American dream," he says. "In exchange, they promise to be law-abiding residents and not public charges." The cuts will hit particularly hard in four states ? California, Florida, Texas and New York ? that account for three-quarters of all non-citizens on food stamps. As Rivera warns: "It's a very dangerous trend ... it won't take long for the Government to see the results of forcing the poor to go hungry...
...taking her story to the tabloids. But the soap opera keeps taking new twists. The issue of whether Cosby really is Autumn's father--he denies it, while admitting he had sex with her mother--was ruled irrelevant at the trial. But last week on CNBC's Rivera Live, Cosby attorney Jack Schmitt dropped a bombshell: he said Cosby was having blood drawn--"as we speak"--for a DNA comparison, to try to settle the paternity matter once and for all. Schmitt challenged Autumn Jackson to do the same...
...witness firsthand the treatment managed-care patients are getting, have been especially active. Local 1199 of the National Health and Human Service Employees Union, whose members staff hospitals, clinics and doctors' offices in New York City, is starting its own health plan. The aim, says local president Dennis Rivera, is to "take for-profit out of the equation" and lower costs--not for care but for overhead and salaries. Eleanor Tilson, executive director of 1199's 320,000-member plan, makes $175,000 a year--peanuts compared with nearly any other HMO chief...
...York--Its starting rotation seems healthy, and David Cone, Kenny Rogers and Dwight Gooden are all throwing great. The team will be fine unless closer Mariano Rivera falters. It doesn't have the luxury of John Wetteland any more...