Word: programming
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...dropped from welfare rolls. And under pressure from Bush allies running the appropriations committees, Texas legislators accepted projections of a steep decline in patient demand for Medicaid. Bush succeeded in passing another tax cut, this one amounting to $1.7 billion. But the Medicaid forecasts proved overly rosy, leaving the program with a $400 million deficit. The state health department is looking for ways to offset it. One idea is to take more than $17 million from hard-pressed programs for disabled children...
...first rule of Veepdom: do no harm. First, there was his uncompassionately conservative record, voting no on everything from Head Start to college-student aid to the Older Americans Act, which offers support services to the elderly. This prompted the joke that Cheney's never met a welfare program he liked. When the New York Times examined his stint at Halliburton, it found that he was more an ambassador attracting business through government contacts than a hands-on executive. He's had to explain his past support for OPEC's pinching off supply to boost prices and his company...
Working with the Baltimore schools, Abell came up with an innovative solution: send some of the class cutups and brawlers 6,000 miles away to a school the foundation dubbed Baraka--Swahili for "blessing." So far, the program has accommodated only about 40 students a year, less than 1% of the middle school enrollment--not nearly enough to achieve the classroom tranquillity in Baltimore that was the initial goal. But in its four years, Baraka has delivered an unexpected bonus. It has turned around the lives of most of the students who have gone there. Many of them, like Brandon...
...launched his program in Baltimore, Embry at first looked to build a residential school somewhere in the U.S., but the costs were so high he felt he could never reach enough students. So he instead chose a spot beneath the foothills of Mount Kenya, where land is cheap and his teachers, half of whom are Kenyan, are willing to work for salaries as low as $5,000 a year. The focus is on boys (who more often than girls pose disciplinary problems) in the seventh and eighth grades. "That's when we lose them," says Embry. Baraka tries to save...
...Peace Corps serves developing countries with mostly nonwhite populations, but only 15% of its 7,000 volunteers are minorities. So the corps is working to change that, in partnership with two historically black colleges. At Florida A&M University, students in a new master's program can earn academic credit by volunteering in the corps. At Texas Southern University, the corps will sponsor summer internships overseas...