Mr Duncan Smith wants to ensure benefit claimants are not made worse off by working and make state support conditional on willingness to work.

BBC: Alex Attwood

Republicans Bobby Jindal of Louisiana is trying to ditch his state's income tax while Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is working to shift people off his state's Medicaid rolls and onto private insurance.

WSJ: New generation of governors seeking the limelight

For example, the Department of Transportation took months off the timeline to approve the Whittier Bridge Replacement project in Massachusetts by working with the state government and doing concurrent project reviews.

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