Word: states
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Welfare reform efforts in the state of Wisconsin have met with remarkable success in moving welfare recipients to work, Wisconsin Gov. Tommy G. Thompson told an audience of nearly 125 at an Institute of Politics speech at the Arco Forum last night...
...response, Thompson called for a federal crackdown on fathers who fail to pay child support and attempt to escape their responsibilities by crossing state lines...
...might not work in a state like California because the poverty problem is more complex there and poverty is seen in greater numbers," Grech said...
...road to a Palestinian state may now be open, but Palestinians aren?t exactly queuing up at the on-ramps. Yasser Arafat Tuesday approved a draft agreement to open a direct road link between the Palestinian-controlled territories in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, which he plans to combine into a Palestinian state. But Palestinians will be allowed to travel the road only at Israel?s discretion, and that?s left many of Arafat?s constituents angry and frustrated. "To travel this road to Gaza in my car, I?ll need a permit from the Israelis," says TIME West...
...deepen Arafat?s political problem among Palestinians. "Ordinary Palestinians see this as further evidence that no matter how much it protests Israeli demands, in the end the Palestinian Authority always goes along with what Israel wants," says Hamad. The message to Palestinians is that the sovereignty of the state Arafat would proclaim will be limited. "At this rate," says Hamad, "New Jersey will be more independent than Arafat?s Palestine...