Reform of the FHA, a New Deal mortgage insurance program, has been seen as a relatively painless way for the government to help borrowers.

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Digging into her memories, van Hylckama Vlieg says her great grandfather eventually found a work program after the New Deal and was able to rebuild his life.

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Romney and Ryan propose to address Medicaid by extending to the program the enormously successful 1996 welfare reforms of the old, New Deal, Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program.

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Those 1996 reforms changed the federal financing for the old, New Deal era, Aid to Families with Dependent Children program (AFDC) from a matching federal funding formula, which paid a state more the more it spent on the program.

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It ends a major federal entitlement program, one that dates from the New Deal.

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There's still disagreement over plans for a new program to bring in agriculture workers, who weren't included in the deal struck between the chamber and AFL-CIO.

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The rental initiative arrives with a slew of new housing shakeups: the rehashed refinancing plan, the nebulous mortgage settlement deal, and a four-city pilot program to rework low-income tax credits.

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