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Speakers including Ogletree blasted the Contract, a controversial proposal that favors massive cuts in federal student aid, Medicaid and food stamp programs...
...Shaw (R-Fla.). Among the basics to go: school lunches, foster care support and child care to the country's neediest women and children. Parents would be required to work after two years on welfare, and would be cut off from benefits after five years; all able-bodied food stamp recipients must work. President Clinton, calling the measure "weak on work and tough on children," seized on its lack of training, education, child care or transitional jobs for single mothers as they move to the work force. TIME congressional correspondent Karen Tumulty says Senate Republicans plan a far more moderate...
...plantoday, voting 22-11 to give states more leeway in distributing benefits and to cut off government aid to most legal immigrants. The legislation also would replace cash benefits to thousands of disabled children with expanded medical services. Another House committee approved legislation to tighten rules for the food stamp program and to hold down automatic increases in benefits...
...government wants to stamp us out,'' the big guy says. ``We can do what they do -- cheaper and better.'' For the first time, light dawns on the face of the Simoleons CEO. ``Wait a sec,'' he says, and puts his hands to his temples. ``You can rig it so that people who use E-money don't have to pay taxes to any government? Ever...
...widespread the new communications infrastructure will become. Faithful human couriers still haul letters by mule train to the Havasupai tribe in Arizona and don Santa suits to deliver cards and presents at Christmastime. Besides, the 206-year-old service is planning for its survival -- experimenting with ventures ranging from stamp collectors' services on CD-ROM to the certification of business- related electronic communications, similar to what it now does for postmarked, certified and registered mail. Another scheme would locate electronic kiosks in post offices, allowing Americans without private Internet connections to exchange E-mail and tap into online services offered...