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Nationally, big-city jailers, their hands already full controlling pretrial detainees and short-term prisoners in overcrowded conditions, tend to resist such reforms. They want more proof that the new designs are truly more efficient and that their guards will be safe. Proponents counter that with proper screening, violent prisoners, who account for only 10% of inmates, can be isolated in highly secure areas, while the general population could dwell in less expensive -- and relatively normal -- environments...
...welfare rolls, eliminating handouts and offering instead day care and WPA- type jobs on useful public projects -- sweeping streets, building roads and parks, doing clerical work and the like. David Ellwood's scheme, which has strongly influenced Clinton's proposals, would convert welfare into a system of short-term, transitional support lasting no more than three years, after which minimum-wage government jobs would be offered to those who couldn't find work in the private sector...
...also a step that came just in time. Just before the aid package was announced, supporters of Boris N. Yeltsin's economic reforms were battling in parliament against those afraid of the short-term destabilizing effects of restructuring. The reformers could use the proposed aid as leverage to keep the changes in place...
...President clung to Mikhail Gorbachev to the end, and viewed Yeltsin as the problem rather than the solution even after Yeltsin won Russia's first democratic election. Clinton's views are exactly opposite. Democracy, he says, offers the best hope for stability, even if moving toward representative government generates short-term disorder...
Medoff said that an important distinction between the long-term and the short-term must be drawn to correctly analyze economic data...