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...Schroeder has attempted to follow in the footsteps of Clinton and Britain's Tony Blair by combining traditional liberal and social democratic concerns with strict fiscal discipline. But the political center in Germany is well to the left of its American equivalent - even conservative governments have traditionally maintained a level of welfare provision that would make Ted Kennedy blush. "Social Democratic supporters have been shocked by Schroeder?s plans, because they?re so unlike the party?s traditional policies," says Sautter. And while Clinton?s policies were put before the voters at two-year intervals, an ongoing series of state...
...people start to realize what's going on, more and more of them are wondering if any part of their personal lives is off-limits. That's one reason the FCC is objecting so loudly. As part of the 1996 Telecommunications Act, the FCC established strict "opt-in" privacy provisions, under which a consumer has to give his consent before his calling data can be made part of marketing campaigns for additional services or products. Not surprisingly, the telcos and other businesses prefer the "opt-out" approach, which costs less and bears more fruit. It gives companies the right...
...benefits. In the end, she relied on the services of an office manager and an outsourced payroll program to administer the benefit. Last year her staff voted to switch to the SIMPLE. In addition to offering easier administration, Lasley says, the SIMPLE was attractive because it doesn't have strict rules about what percentage of employees must participate or how little they can contribute. This gives smaller employers a flexibility that they often need. "The reality is that it's tough to get a 19-year-old kid to say, 'I'm gonna give up my salary...
...conservatives insist that three years of welfare reform have proved what they believed all along: that the best way to get welfare recipients into private-sector jobs is to subject them to strict work requirements. Also, conservatives doubt that billions of dollars in government programs are needed to prepare the hard to serve for work. "There's a great irony to that argument," says Douglas Besharov, a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. "Welfare reform has already accomplished a 40%-to-50% decline in the rolls without spending money on job training...
...John McCain, who calls events such as this weekend's Iowa straw poll a sham, the whole thing doesn't matter. If you care a little or more, the big news is who finished third. From a strict cost-benefit standpoint, the best showing may have been that of Elizabeth Dole, who spent less than either top dog George W. Bush or runner-up Steve Forbes and captured a strong 3,410 votes (14.4 percent). While that respectable finish still didn't present a serious threat to George W., it did position her as a strong contender for the veep...