Bipartisan push aims to overhaul welfare with work incentives
A rare cross party consensus emerges on replacing AFDC with work focused reform. States would lead, with workfare and job training, while mothers with young children receive subsidized care. Critics cite family breakup and incentives to stay home, yet broad agreement grows on decentralizing policy to foster work and self sufficiency.
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America
Lyndon Johnson
Washington
Congress
Reagan
California
Massachusetts
National Governors Association
AFCC
AFDC
Notch Year Babies May Gain From New Legislation
U S Rep Butler Derrick co-sponsors bills directing the Social Security commissioner and Health and Human Services secretary to study the notch period and report options to correct the inequity faced by those born 1917 to 1921 who reached age 62 after 1978 and received up to 100 dollars less monthly.
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U. S
Butler Derrick
Commissioner of Social Security
Secretary of Health and Human Services
Congress
Gorbachev’s three aims reshape Soviet politics and policy
Gorbachev pursues modernization of the economy, regime legitimation, and SDI neutralization. He courts American intellectuals, reintroduces Sakharov, and seeks to influence Reagan’s policy while challenging the SDI. The effect elevates his stature and promises a lasting media and political impact in the United States.
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New York City
Mikhail Gorbachev
Peter
Catherine
Council On Foreign Relations
Henry Kissinger
Cyrus Vance
William Hyland
Gorbachev
Lincoln Steffens
Sidney and
Beatrice Webb
H.G. Wells
George Orwell
Arthur Koestler
Aldous Huxley
Soviet Union
Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
Russia
SDI
Andrei Sakharov
Moscow
Reagan
Washington
New York
Strategic Defense Initiative
Reykjavik
Ronald Reagan
George Shultz
Rumsfeld May Be Strong Candidate For President
Donald Rumsfeld, with a vast government and business background, signals a long-shot bid for the Republican nomination. He stresses foreign experience, avoids clear domestic stances, and aims to outlast rivals by staying in the race and leveraging his administrative record.
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Rumsfeld
Donald Rumsfeld
George Bush
Illinois
Ford
NATO
Defense
G.D. Searle & Co
White House
Alexander Haig
Wendell Wilkie
Searle
Fortune Magazine
Secret Service
Ronald Reagan
Reaganauts
Reagan
Washington
Reagan backs catastrophic-illness plan for elderly
President Reagan urged Congress to pass a catastrophic-illness health plan aimed at 30 million elderly Americans, proposing a $4.92 monthly premium with a $2,000 annual out-of-pocket limit. Bowen said the self-supporting program would raise $1.77 billion yearly but critics warn of deficits and private insurer impact.
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Washington
Reagan
Congress
Otis Bowen
Secretary of Health and Human Services
Edward Kennedy
D-Mass
Edwin Meese
Bery Sprinkel
Council of Economic
Bowen
White House
Marlin Fitzwater
David Durenberger
Minnesota
Senate Finance Committee
Claude Pepper
D-Fla
Capitol Hill
Pepper
House Committee On Aging
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