While I cannot say that this bill was passed with poor intentions, I believe that the bill inadvertently cripples the potential for valuable student and teacher connections.
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They're even taking aim at poor children with a bill to lower the income requirement for North Carolina's prekindergarten program, making it off limits to nearly 30, 000 children who would have previously qualified.
Ronald Reagan bounced back emphatically from a poor result in 1986, Bill Clinton from a catastrophe in 1994.
That is why chances for passing a cap-and-trade bill this year are poor, and you are not likely to hear Democratic candidates talk much about it.
And by giving money to rich American farmers, the farm bill does little for the poor here.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-California, said the bill was necessitated by the poor judgment shown by firms receiving bailout money.
BBC's poor cousin is now hanging on to Bill Gates's coat-tails.
King had already decided during the last year of his life to push for the congressional passage of an economic bill of rights for the poor, Jones says.
"We're very concerned that what the bill does is it punishes people for being poor, " Appleby said.
There are also signs that the rent rises caused by the shift in ownership are pushing up the bill for housing benefit, the rent subsidy paid to poor people.
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The bill provides more money for schools, particularly those in poor areas, but, unlike similar efforts in the past 40 years, it ties that money to progress in annual tests.
Although it is no longer true that a candidate must win New Hampshire to become president -- Bill Clinton broke that jinx in 1992 -- a poor showing here still appears almost certain to snuff out the chances of a presidential candidate.
Bill Easterly of New York University criticises the WDRs for not helping poor countries decide what to do when things are so uncertain.
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But whether his bill succeeds or not, it highlights a glaring disparity - while poor people can be trapped for years in abusive marriages, it is not uncommon for the rich to have more than one marriage annulled.
"De Soto's ideas about how to empower the world's poor represent one of the most significant economic insights of our time, " says Bill Clinton, another fan, by e-mail.
Microsoft founder Bill Gates on Friday backed a controversial financial transactions tax to aid development in poor countries but France acknowledged that most G20 countries did not like the idea.
But developing drugs for other addictions is a riskier commercial proposition, largely because so many addicts are poor and, in America at least, their health insurance will not always pay the bill.
And Bill Gates has said that importing a rich-country tool might not help the poor.
In this way, Obama differs from Bill Clinton, who after all recognized the need for basic industries as governor of poor and rural Arkansas.
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The international health group Program for Appropriate Technology in Health, funded by Microsoft founder Bill Gates , recently launched a five-year drive to get cervical cancer vaccines to poor countries.
Shadow environment secretary Mary Creagh said Labour did not oppose the bill, but told the House she would call for amendments to cut water costs for the poor.
Yet Bill Zollars, boss of Yellow Roadway, America's largest trucking firm, says that poor rail services have forced him to put 20, 000 intermodal shipments each month back on to trucks.
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The Senate bill, for instance, relies much more on expanding Medicaid, the system of provision for the poor.
Conceivably, the bill could leave the details to Congress and simply impose the triggers, but such triggers have a poor record of success.
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