Word: riveras
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Reported by Michael Brunton/London, Elaine Rivera and Andrea Sachs/New York, Thomas Sancton/Paris and Jacqueline Savaiano/Los Angeles
...Reported by Jyl Benson/New Orleans, James L. Graff/Chicago, Margot Hornblower/Los Angeles, Elaine Rivera/ New York and Tom Witkowski/Boston
...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...