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...AFDC mothers. Under current law, welfare recipients are allowed to keep only $50 in child support. The Family Support Act bolstered efforts to collect the money by requiring automatic withholding from the wages of absent parents. A plan proposed by Ellwood would expand those efforts and add a new twist: collection insurance. In cases in which the absent father could not be tracked down or did not have the money to pay up, the government would pay the mother a fixed amount per child each year. This approach is the basis for a bipartisan plan, announced in the House last...
...whether this proposal, first ratified by Maryland in 1789, will finally become the 27th Amendment is still uncertain. Some experts question whether it is still valid after more than two centuries. In an odd twist, Congress itself may have to determine its validity. "We all know that the wheels of government often turn slowly," observes Republican State Senator Joseph Bubba, who sponsored the amendment in New Jersey. "But two centuries is too long to wait, even by government standards...
Specifically, a group of editors, mostly women, as well as some professors say the spoof was a new twist on a recurring theme, symptomatic of more widespread disrespect towards women at the prestigious journal...
Murphy's single motherhood is being hailed as a milestone for prime-time TV, but the plot twist smacks of gimmickery. The trouble is that the show tries to have it both ways: Murphy, the unsentimental career woman, has spent most of the season making cynical jokes about motherhood ("Oh, right, the unforgettable thrill of passing a bowling ball"). Yet when the baby finally arrives, there's our new mother, misty-eyed, crooning (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman to the newborn. For a gal who knows the words to In-A-Gadda- Da-Vida, she's starting...
...latest twist to the saga, the council on Sunday called an unprecedented vote to decide whether Beys should be impeached. Beys won the vote, which was cast by secret ballot, by an unknown margin and will finish out his term as treasurer...