welfare reform is "self-sufficiency," that Campaign for Jobs and Income Support, "Poverty is the great invisible prob- idea is "not being adequately reflected" which was...
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Medicaid) that are still popular. But if they're to play more than defense, Democrats need a big argument about the affirmative uses of government. Gore's current weakness makes that debate more...
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Victor Ferkiss GREEN WITH DISGUST It's Nader for me I confess. I have been a political junkie almost all of my life. Some people have a passion for art or music, literature or philosophy, fine...
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REPORT ON THE ENVIRONMENT STRONG WINDS FROM D.C. THE END OF PROTECTION? The American environmental movement is in disarray and on the defensive. The 1994 Republican victory has led to an...
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To the Editors: John Garvey ["Creeping Dimness," October 21] unwittingly illustrated his own point when he attributed to Mort Sahl the observation that...
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