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Given the other issues at hand, you might not think welfare reform would be a hot one for President Bush. But he has long wanted to toughen the 1996 law that led to a dramatic reduction in welfare rolls and imposed work requirements on many recipients--and he is now a step closer. Voting along party lines, the Senate Finance Committee approved a bill last week that would replace the expired 1996 law with a stricter set of rules. The measure would raise the number of hours that welfare recipients must work or be enrolled in training or course work...
...candidates or the Democratic National Committee with Green leaders, and those leaders remain highly skeptical of the Dems. Green Party co-chairman Ben Manski said over the weekend that the Democratic Party has been trying to thwart the Greens at every turn. Among other actions, Democrats have worked to toughen the standards for third-party candidates to get on the ballot, even for downticket races, in numerous states, and they have used the redistricting process to subvert a Green member of the Maine legislature, Manski said. Asked for comment, the DNC did not respond...
...billion Estimated amount the U.S. Treasury loses each year to workers who wrongly claim the earned-income tax credit. Treasury wants to toughen eligibility requirements...
...Rania of Jordan calls a "hope gap." For some, that gap has been filled by a passionate commitment to a superfundamentalist strain of Islam, one that visits no sanction against indiscriminate violence in its name. To hope to combat the threat from such violence, it is not enough to toughen up the defense of the American homeland. What is needed, rather, is a Wilsonian project to assist the development of peace, democracy and prosperity in the Middle East. And that is what Bush has promised...
...order security staff to eject several unruly M.P.s. But she never lost her cool. "Maybe they thought I wouldn't be strong enough to stand up to them because I'm a woman," she says. "They were wrong." During the Milosevic years, Micic had ample opportunity to toughen up as a human-rights activist in the provincial town of Uzice near the Bosnian border. Her law office became the unofficial headquarters of Otpor, the anti-Milosevic resistance group that played a pivotal role in toppling the dictator. "She was like a mother to us," remembers one former Otpor activist...