Word: theamount
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...governor in 1979, Thornburgh quicklyembarked on his platform to reduce taxes and theamount of state expenditures. During hiseight-year term he cut state income and businesstaxes by $1 billion over three years and fired15,000 state employees. He further reducedgovernment expenditures by kicking what helabelled able bodied adults off the welfare rollsand passing laws restricting the amount of medicalcost assistance...
Though there has been an "expansion in theamount of services available in many communities,"this may only apply to "a small segment of thepopulation," not the entire community, Dorwartsaid...