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...Texas haul is also made up of money mostly owed to welfare mothers. The joint state/federal enforcement program was originally founded, in part, to defray the costs of Aid to Families with Dependent Children, and the states can still use the money they collect in welfare cases for that purpose. Funds recovered on behalf of nonwelfare mothers, however, simply get passed on to them. The result, says Sue Anderson, a Minnesotan who spent years trying to collect from her ex, is "if you have any sort of income, [the states] don't give you the time of day." Some...
...order to further defray the cost, Weld filed legislation which would impose a $200 fee on defendants convicted of sexual assault offenses...
...trial should be moved to the Pantages Theater on Hollywood Boulevard, with $25 daily admission charged. The money accrued from the sold-out performances of Shapiro, Cochran, Clark & Bailey would defray the high costs of the trial, and the move would place the proceedings in a proper venue for the spectacle the trial has become...
Mike C. Rauta '96, a member of the Cabot house committee, said since the council no longer regularly provides funding for house committees, Cabot did not receive an adequate grant to defray costs for the Quad-wide formal next week...
...taking on the special interests and eliminating tax loopholes and spending giveaways that favor the few while hurting growth." Shapiro has identified 65 such preferences. "Wipe them out entirely," he says, "and you save $225 billion over five years." Among the programs Shapiro would gut are those that defray airlines' costs to expand terminals and payments to farmers whose commodities sell below set prices. To ensure that Congress doesn't pick and choose -- a process in which the strongest special interests would see their favored scams survive -- Shapiro wants a bipartisan commission whose recommendations Congress would have to accept...