That would be funding a general welfare program with a tax on a specific class of people.
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Medicaid has less broad-based appeal than Medicare, probably because it is more associated as a public welfare program.
As is the case with every welfare program, EU welfare programs have a temporary simulative effect on the economy.
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If their party endorsed it, liberals supported even a harsh welfare program, and conservatives supported even a lavish one.
But recall that the joint state-federal welfare program has always had "work" requirements.
The Social Security Administration provided technical assistance in designing the union-run welfare program.
The states and Governors are free under that law to increase required work in that welfare program any time they want.
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Conservatives like to pretend that Social Security is an extravagant welfare program so even these pitiful rates of return are inexcusably high.
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This winter, I met an unemployed young man who was skimming money off a welfare program that guarantees rural employment to the indigent.
It would be better to roll the program into the general budget and not have separate earmarked taxes, like any other welfare program.
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But, as the Nikkei points out, there are better reasons not to wait, beginning with the continuing explosion in old age welfare program costs.
The whole point of the 1996 welfare reform law was to give states broad discretion in revising the old Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) welfare program.
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But, as elsewhere, it is actually a welfare program in which potential beneficiaries, as a class, pay only a small fraction of cost and are subsidized by non-potential beneficiaries.
It is popular with some Indians for a massive social welfare program, but has faced criticism for a series of alleged corruption allegations and failing to stop a rapid slowdown in economic growth.
Recipients who work and receive minimal assistance will be allowed to opt out of the welfare program, yet still be eligible for medical care under Medi-Cal (the state's version of Medicaid) and child care.
This is the same moral perspective that is at the root of every other welfare state program.
"This administration's policy will strengthen the (welfare) program by giving states the opportunity to employ more effective ways, " Carney said.
Political pursuits could also motivate Bush to continue his 1997 fight for a full program of welfare privatization in Texas.
The reforms include extending the enormously successful 1996 welfare reforms of just one federal program, Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), to all federal means tested welfare programs, nearly 200.
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With these new incentives, welfare rolls under the old program declined by almost 60% nationwide.
Johnson is part of a small but impressive welfare-to-work program Sprint began last October in one of Kansas City's poorest neighborhoods.
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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Such reforms worked spectacularly well to stop the runaway costs of the old AFDC program when Congress adopted welfare reform in 1996.
Medicaid also could be transformed from a permanent entitlement into a temporary assistance program, much like the welfare reform of 1996.
Bush later heard from three single mothers who made the transition from welfare to work through the help of a program administered by a local church.
Getting rid of the federal welfare entitlement in the 1990s and shifting the program to the states was a very successful policy, saving billions of dollars for taxpayers and significantly reducing poverty.
That was a program that was looking at transitioning people from welfare to work.
But they reveal little understanding of the complex interest-group politics and broader meaning of Medicare in America, as a social insurance program, as a pillar of the liberal welfare state, as a force in the lives of millions of people.
At the same time, because of the resulting increased work by former welfare dependents, the incomes of the families formerly on the program rose by 25%, and poverty among those families plummeted.
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He stuck to a simple, four-point program: education, juvenile justice, tort reform and welfare reform.
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