• In Milwaukee, the poorest part of the state, the entire operation has been taken from the welfare department and contracted out.

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  • Malawi does not, as a rule, approve adoptions for single or divorced people, but the official at the country's welfare department said that each case was considered on merit.

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  • "contacting the chair of the charitable organization" and "contacting the Department of Welfare, " according to a source with knowledge of the case.

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  • Under Mr Brown, they say, the Treasury gives the impression of having taken over policymaking on welfare reform from the Department of Social Security, and on microeconomic policy from the Department of Trade and Industry.

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  • He referred to a key point in the July report in which he said Spanier, Schultz and Curley drew up a plan that called for reporting Sandusky to the state Department of Public Welfare in 2001.

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  • With educational and economic opportunities skewed, no wonder that health and welfare indicators are too: the Justice Department estimates that one in three black men will go to jail at some point.

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  • An official at the Malawian department of women and child welfare told the BBC's Raphael Tenthani that the pop star had already filed adoption papers and her case could be heard as early as next week.

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  • We Are Spartacus, an online campaign group about disabled people's views on the welfare system, analysed figures from the Department for Work and Pensions and Motability, the organisation that supplies lease cars and specialist converted vehicles to disabled people claiming the highest mobility rate of Disability Living Allowance.

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  • If you pass muster with the local building department, you'll probably have to renovate the space to please the local department of social services or child welfare agency.

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  • The Department for Work and Pensions said welfare reforms would help people to find employment which would "benefit the economy more than simply abandoning them to claim benefits year after year".

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  • Dole's government resume is extensive and includes professional stints at the Nixon White House as a deputy assistant for consumer affairs, the Federal Trade Commission, and the now-defunct Department of Health, Education and Welfare.

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  • Sotomayor lodged a grievance with what was then the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, accusing Princeton of an "institutional pattern of discrimination" in admissions and in hiring "Puerto Rican and Chicano" faculty.

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  • Her Washington career started the following year, at the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.

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  • "The Department of State takes very seriously the welfare of children, particularly children who have been adopted from other countries, " she said.

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  • "But what I do want to say, more broadly speaking, is that one of the department's highest priorities is the welfare of U.S. citizens overseas, and this is particularly true for children who are our most vulnerable citizens, " Ventrell said.

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  • Currently he said, local authorities were reimbursed for any unforeseen expenditure and government grant met the full cost of the benefit scheme, as part of the overall national scheme of welfare benefits, which was the responsibility of the Department for Work and Pensions.

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  • The report also called on the Department of Treasury to develop guidelines to explain social welfare activity -- the primary factor in obtaining tax-exempt status.

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  • In addition, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which enforces the federal Animal Welfare Act, is also looking to understand why the lion turned on the intern.

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  • The White House Monday released a report from the Department of Health and Human Services detailing the success of welfare reform.

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  • On March 4, 1913, President William Howard Taft signed a bill establishing the United States Department of Labor -- an agency charged with promoting the welfare of American workers and ensuring their efforts are rewarded with fair wages and real protections.

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  • Running the department has also given Mrs Clinton an instrument to promote the welfare of women, a cause she made her own as first lady in 1995 when a speech on women's rights at a conference in Beijing made a global splash.

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  • The Gazan economy remains dependent on Israel and the international community led by the U.S. State Department has forced Israel to act on its responsibility for the economic welfare of Gaza.

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  • The changes, which would allow states greater flexibility in administering their welfare-to-work programs, were in a directive issued last month by the Department of Health and Human Services.

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  • After being sued by an animal rights group called Alternatives Research and Development Foundation, the Department of Agriculture agreed last September to place rats and mice under the Animal Welfare Act requiring labs to keep endless records on every animal, something most already do.

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  • Peter Edelman, a former assistant secretary at the Department of Health and Human Services who resigned in protest over last year's welfare bill, has written a searing indictment of welfare reform in the current issue of Atlantic Monthly.

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  • In response to Ofsted's report, the Department for Education and Skills said it was about to embark on a reform of education welfare which it said would have so-called 'missing children' as a major priority.

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  • "With Solis at the helm, we're absolutely confident that the Department of Labor will return to its primary mission of looking out for the health and welfare of America's workers, " said Art Pulaski, executive secretary-treasurer of the California Labor Federation.

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  • Laurie Russell from Social Enterprise Scotland and the Wise Group said the effect of the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) work programme and the impact of the recent Welfare Reform Act must be watched as they were part of a "cheap and nasty system led by the UK government".

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  • In response to a petition demanding stronger oversight of commercial breeders who sell puppies online, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced they were developing a proposed rule that would cover internet breeders under the Animal Welfare Act.

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