Word: taxed
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...safeguarded. For the working poor--families where one or both parents work full time and still do not earn enough to pull them over the poverty line--Ellwood proposes four things: a government-subsidized medical insurance program that would provide poor people with medical coverage, an earned income tax credit, a system of transitional assistance of strictly limited duration that would replace welfare and food stamps, and a limited number of government jobs that would serve as a last resort for those unable to find work...
Last week both candidates courted women's votes by traveling the day-care circuit, hugging preschoolers, pushing children on swings and playing with goldfish. Bush tried to attack his gender-gap problem by proposing a $2.2 billion child-care program. In Republican fashion, the plan would rely on tax breaks and credits rather than a direct Government program. Still, it would cost money, and Bush, who says he will not raise taxes, is not saying where the funds would come from. Below a certain income level, every mother with small children would get a tax credit or refund...
...introduced by Democrats in Congress that would apply federal standards to day-care facilities and provide money to states for subsidizing those who send their children to approved facilities. The two approaches illustrate a fundamental difference in the parties' philosophy: the Democrats prefer a directly financed Government program, Republicans tax incentives and less federal involvement...
...electoral rationale for Bush to target California by choosing its Governor. Deukmejian publicly ruled himself out because his selection would hand the statehouse to the Dems, but Bush aides say Deukmejian would accept if asked. Weaknesses: he is dull as Death Valley, and he (like Dukakis) favored unpopular tax increases to cover his state's big deficit...
...Italian American, he could help in the bid for urban ethnics. "We'd love to have a guy with a vowel at the end of his name," says one Bush aide. But he is not a true Reaganaut: as Budget % Committee chairman, he struggled with the Administration, urging tax and budget prudence...