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Welfare reform
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Welfare reform: Brief summary of selected major proposals
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1987
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This report provides brief summaries of selected proposals to revise programs of aid for needy children and their families. All proposals would alter treatment of recipients of the program of Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), and some also include recommendations to revise cash welfare for the needy aged, blind, or disabled (Supplemental Security Income--SSI). The report summarizes several provisions of current law and then describes how the proposals would change them. Examined are: benefit rules, work/school obligations, treatment of earnings, job refusal on income grounds, eligibility of two-parent families, the Federal funding share, and the interaction of AFDC with other programs.
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to refugees for at least 2 years, or (2) are under age 22 and lack a high school diploma. ,Pay cash bonus to States for placement (for at least 1 year) of an AFDC household head (or head of a family that received refugee aid) in a nonsubsidized job that provides an income at least equal to cash welfare benefits and ends entitlement to cash aid. For those with two Years of welfare enrollment, bonus equals 75
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, while the U. S. compound in Mos- cow is being built in what once was a swamp. That deal was signed by President Nixon in 1972 during the era of détente. But the Reagan administration still has a lotto answer for. Soviet snooping inside our current Mos- cow embassy, made possible by the they fraternize.’ HERBLOCK IN THE WASHINGTON POST the highest mus ‘First let's find the masterminds alleged
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Wye. ’(?.ime§-flgicagune Thaaoda. 3/, /42'/-, €cl3~f5«u7J 90.8. 9198 7» Reproduced with Permission. The (New Orleans) Times-Picayurie Watching the watchers The third recent major failure of American counterintelligence is per- haps the most spectacular and was perhaps the most preventable. We have had a CIA agent, briefed for assignment to Moscow, defect and have exposed, after great damage was done, a ring of Navy men who fed a widespectrum of defense intelligence to the Soviets. Now two Marine guards at the American Embassy in Moscow stand charged with letting KGB officers roam the most sensitive areas of the embassy after hours. Marine guards at diplomatic missions abroad are, virtually by definition, above suspicion. They are not privy to security information. They keep the keys to buildings and offices because they the premises to see that classified papers and equipment are not left on desks and in waste-baskets,’ that file cabinets are locked and classified equipment is not left out. They do not have combinations, but combination locks are no mystery to foreign professionals. A lot is still fuzzy in the charges, but even at minimum they are serious. The code room is said to have been thoroughly penetrated, A but it is said to be unclear whether the am}:-essador’s and the CIA station chiefs offices were. The guards are said to have provided the Soviets names, photographs, addresses and phone numbers of American intelligence agents, information Marine guards do not possess and cannot normally acquire, unless giving others access to the CIA office files is meant. The two are said to have turned over classified contents of burn bags, which would mean that embassy procedure was sloppy --— such burning is supposed to be supervised by cleared embassy personnel. Indeed, several procedures seem to have been sloppy if the guards committed the deeds they are charged with, and several other people and institutions need to be examined for remedies. News note that no one else has yet been disciplined in the case, but the Marine sergeant who commands the embassy guard unit must have many ques- tions to answer. The two guards are said to have been seduced into treason by Russian female employees of the embassy who were KGB agents. It is assumed that all Russian embassy employees are. KGB agents or report to the KGB (last fall, belatedly and unrelated to this incident, hiring of local personnel was ended). The embassy is small, isolated from local society and thus turned in onto itself. How, then, could such alliances have gone unknown or even unsuspected by the men’s superiors, colleagues or acquaintances? Foreign intelligence services are able and can beat us fair and square. But most tum- coat agents, seen too late in retrospect, exhibit characteristics or behavior that should have alerted their superiors _at least to suspicion. The Marines are naturally fearful that all will be tarred with this bmsh. But, in fact, the system of providing diplomatic missions with Marine guards should now come under review. It is a relic from the time when such guards were actually defensive forces; now they are impressively uniformed watchmen --— young, largely unsophisticated, trained not for this work but for battlefield action --4 doing a job better assigned to professional counterintelligence officers. Even lacking reports of successes, which must go unreported to be successes, we assume that American counterintelligence is broadly effective. But trumpeted failures give the impression that we are always locking the barn door after a horse that should have been known to be a rogue has escaped. The lesson to be learned is always the same: tighten up and pay attention.
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THE MILWAUKEE JOURNAL /9. /0/4 0198 7 The Milwaukee Journal. Reproduced with Permission. 7 /9/7» W / .o.=5 a «pronoun 3 nonaoa a E on :o:a.:m_EEua 2: E3 :2: 3.5 §2§.u$=8 3. mmmmma 8 can Boumofi 5 >838» ms 2: mascara mmaomzu 3 fiaucm o5 .§EoE 8 canoe: m_ :o:awamo>:_ «SE 5:2 .:._2_ £5 3 33¢ 6.5 293 $2: 3932 52: on S ..u>o3o: .u..3aEo.E on 2.53 £ .bEEo.E vmE.§o on 8 coo: btofiau uo men: :2: .o
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- omcial - Americans living in Moscow. One need only think back to 1960 after the U-2 spy incident to those dramatic pictures of an indignant Henry Cabot Lodge showing Americans a massive rep- lica of the Great Seal of the US from the American embassy in Moscow - in which the Soviets had planted a listening device. And among security lapses, there was the bombing of the Marine barracks in Leba- non a few
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How- ard, who handed over stacks of secrets before defecting in1985. It has happened to the Soviets as well. a In the case of the Marine guards, though, the State Depart- ment was asking for trouble. It plopped 28 Marines — all young, single and green — into the mid- dle of an unfriendly country for two years at a time and told them not to befriend local wom- Editorials — 0193',’ The Burlington
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-es who undermined internal security and counterintelligence programs in the early 1970s, enabling foreign powers to get their noses under the tent. As long ago as 1980, the Heritage Founda- tion warned in its Mandate for Leadership that “counterintelligence in the United States has all but disintegrated. .. As the need for counterintelligence has grown,” it contin- - ued, “our ability to meet those
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&W; /%”f / 6 iflnrllanh ¥,lr2S§ lleralh *3 19 87 Reproduced with Permission. S Portland (Maine) Press Herald a S / From Russia with love Whoever negotiated the deal allowing the Soviet Union and the United States to build new embassies in each other’s countries ought to be fired from govern- ment service and forced to sell aluminum siding for a living. Consider: The Russian embassy, built atop
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ill): iflall as 'illnruiu.g toms ©1937 The Dallas Morning News. Reproduced with Permission. fl/st/$1,/¢aS’@ p 504 EMBASSY SCANDAL If convicted, Marines deserve maximum penalty Military men, no less than other citizens, have the right to be considered innocent un- til proved guilty. But if the two Marines charged with betraying their trust and their country in the Moscow embassy are con- victed
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Qlje gllzxftfofb gioufant aim./3, /755 f- 4/2 C l,987'- Reproduced with Permission. The Hartford Courant . . . No greater dishonor Public capacity for outrage i: i being worn by the series of violations of national security information by American citizens. The ar- rests of three Marine guards, who served at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow and allegedly- allowed Soviet KGB agents ac :cess
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ands i3enat“e.i bills,... and.r the: final- confersencesoi agreement. See: in: particular Titles? on Tax Shelters and Interest Expense, p- :1+137“:¢, lI+157.— Helpful interpretations and elaborations can be found in Peat,x Marwick, Mitchell & Co., Tax Reform Act of 1986: Conference Agreement, August:2l,.l986.. 2/ The Conference Committee reached its agreement on August 16, 1986, which became
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ABSTRACT This report briefly describes the limits placed by the Tax Reform‘ Act of 1986 on the deductibility of interest by individuals. It includes the categories of business interest, consumer interest, home mortgage interest, investment interest, interest on activities subject to the passive loss limits, and interest on rental real estate in which the taxpayer actively participates.
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;iossesiiandxdeduction~equivaient?credits)- from all such active rental..activities may be taken in each year against the taxpayer's non-passive income. The amount. of this allowed deduction is phased out for adjusted gross incomer(determined, without regard: to passive losses, IRA contributions, or taxable Social Security benefits) between $100,000 and $150,000.. The same« dollar,limit,app1ies whether
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CRS-3 consumer interest deductions that are disallowed tnr these limits, unlike investment interest or passive losses. A Phase-out Timetable (Applies to several categories of disallowed deductions: all consumer interest; and passive losses, investment interest, and mortgage interest in excess of new limits) Tax Year Percent Disallowed- Percent Allowed 1986 _ o 100 1987 35 65 1988 60 40 1989 80 20
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of 1986, by Jack Taylor. [Washington] 1986. (Report no. 86-929 E) The Tax Reform Act of 1986 and Owners of Rental Housing, by Richard Bourdon. [Washington] 1986. (Report no. 86-919 E) £§/ Conference Report, p. II-141. af/sem/rb/nn/rb
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CRS-v -E CONTENTS O O O O O I O O I O O O O O O O O O O O O O O C O O O :0 O O O O O CONSUMER INTEREST . . . . . . . .7. . . . . . Phase-out Timetable . . . .'. . 5 . . . Interest on Borrowing Associated with Life Policies . . . . . . . . . . . . . HOME MORTGAGE INTEREST . . . . . . . . . . . Ministers and Military Personnel . 4 . . INVESTMENT INTEREST . . . . . . . . . . . . . INTEREST
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CR3-l6 about these compounds. Of the approximately l2OO compounds used as inert ingredients in pesticide formulations, EPA identified: 1) 55 compounds of known toxicity, such as animal carcinogens and neurotoxic chemicals; l 2) 51 compounds structurally related to those with known toxicity; 3) 900 compounds (approximately) of unknown toxicity: and 4) 200 compounds (approximately) determined
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CRS-46, \ Further amendments regarding these provisions might be offered during consideration of H.R. 2482 before the House. In the Senate, additional proposals are expected during Committee mark-up if not also on the Senate floor. I Llsnkxnv OF s wASH|NC5TN U’NI”VeER8jlT‘.l:' 31'." LOUl‘S '- MO.

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