Word: programing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...revelation for Don, who still attends meetings at the center every Wednesday night. He's doing well now, and so is the marriage. Joyce would like to see the counseling program expanded?and one thing more. Says she with a wan smile: "I'd love to see a great big parade?one time, national." ?By Lance Morrow. Reported by Jeff Melvoin/Los Angeles and Peter Staler/New York, with other U.S. bureaus
...veteran's needs, even in these days of Reagan's almost-everything-must-go budget cuts. Congressmen are sensitive to public sentiments. Besides, there are 31 Viet Nam-era vets sitting in Congress now. The Administration's plans to cut $131 million out of veterans' counseling, employment and education programs detonated real indignation among Congressmen and editorial writers. Among the programs on the hit list were the readjustment counseling centers that have helped more than 67,000 Viet Nam veterans since they opened in late 1979. These storefront operations allow Viet Nam vets to come in and talk...
...mistakenly made it $85 million rather than the $157 million requested by President Reagan and approved by the Republican-controlled Senate. The House bill contains no funds at all for Project Head Start, which prepares poor children for school, even though Reagan in February had named it as a program he did not want to cut, much less eliminate; Republican leaders decided to deal with Head Start funding later. Correcting errors and oversights will be one big task for a House-Senate conference...
Food Stamps. Most House Democrats wanted to cut this program by $1.5 billion next fiscal year; the conservative coalition deepened the reduction to $1.9 billion. Under current law, a family of four earning as much as $14,000 a year can qualify for stamps; that income ceiling will be lowered to roughly $11,000, and other provisions will reduce benefits even for some families that earn less...
Administration backers made some concessions to win their victory. At the last minute, they withdrew a proposal to set a strict limit on Washington contributions to the federal-state Medicaid program that pays many hospital and doctor bills for low-income patients. That was one of the rare Administration proposals that provoked Republican rebellion: some G.O.P. Congressmen from the Northeast and Midwest notified the White House that they could not go along because they feared their financially hard-pressed states would have to pick up an unbearable share of the costs. Even so, the House voted to cut federal contributions...