Word: reforms
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Without strong parties with clear ideologies, Americans lose out on substantive policy debates. The Green Party and the Reform Party for instance, have strong counterparts in Europe where parties have strength, but lack a significant voice in our elections. Without these parties playing a part in policy debates voters lose...
Wolf's first speech before the state House was to propose $40 million in funding to help immigrants, who had been cut off from social services by federal welfare reform...
Education vouchers represent an attempt to jumpstart school reform without increasing funding...
Gore would add a full prescription-drug benefit and kick in more money to keep Medicare secure--but without reform, the system is likely to face bankruptcy in coming decades...
...WHERE DOES THE MONEY GO? To Medicare reform $87 BILLION To Medicare Rx benefit $253 BILLION To Medicare off-budget "lockbox" $360 BILLION To shore up Medicare with extra cash $75 BILLION TOTAL: $775 BILLION