Two Strikes Costly Cure for Crime and Welfare Debate
The piece weighs a $1 billion projected cost for a two strikes plan by 2010 and its potential reach to nonviolent offenders. It also covers South Carolina welfare reform limiting benefits to two years in ten with a five year lifetime cap, job training, and opposition about creating a permanent underclass. It notes Charleston mayor Joe Riley urging arts funding and Midlands groups pushing private donations amid NEA hurdles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Budget Division
South Carolina
House
Joe Neal
D-Hopkins
Charleston
Joe Riley
Cultural Council of
Richland
Lexington
National Endowment For the Arts
Congress
Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee
Riley
NEA
Aiken Standard Contact and Publication Details
The Aiken Standard lists mailing and office addresses 124 Rutland Drive P O Box 456 Aiken SC 29802 with operating hours 8 30 to 5 30 weekdays and delivery times 5 p m weekdays 7 a m Saturday 8 a m Sunday. It notes switchboard 648 2311 fax 648 6052 and tips line 648 2311 for tips. The paper is published weekday afternoons and weekend mornings by Aiken Communications Inc established 1867.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rutland Drive
P.O. Box
Aiken, S.C
Aiken Standard
Dial
Aiken Standard - Pbm
Aiken Communications Inc
Aiken
S.C
Russian economy hides its paths in underground trade
Trudy Rubin outlines a paradox in Russia as official data clash with visible luxury and foreign trade. She notes massive unreported private commerce, state subsidies masking unemployment, and unreliable statistics from biased surveys, all indicating a hidden underground economy shaping a painful transition toward a market system.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hercule Poirot
Moscow
Metro
Valery Makarov
Tsemi
Makarov
Government Statistics Bureau
Russia
Bus driver shortage spurs letters to the editor
Readers from Aiken and Red Jacket share frustrations with job inquiries and classroom transportation. They urge school officials to address the severe bus driver shortage and emphasize parental involvement in education.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aiken
Roy
Linda Damron
Red Jacket
W. Va
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Scott B. Hunter
Jeffrey B. Wallace
Charles O. Grice
Sue S. Brown
Ellen C. Priest
Andrew D. Morgan
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Herald
Spartanburg
Herald-Journal
Lance
Home
Sos
Adin
Otez
Trudy Rubin
Philadelphia Inquirer
Aiken County
West Virginia
D.C
Brooks
James Metts
Wal-Mart
Barbara Nielsen
Dine
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