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	<title>Breaking News &#187; Welfare Benefits</title>
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		<title>Argentine president decrees $2.6 billion in cash handouts for children of unemployed</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:55:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mayra Pertossi</dc:creator>
		
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Argentine leader decrees subsidies for poor kids

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — President Cristina Fernandez decreed Thursday that Argentina will provide direct cash subsidies of about $47 a month per child to families whose parents are unemployed or work informally.
She said her antipoverty program will cost the social security system nearly 10 billion pesos ($2.6 billion) a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Federal judge orders Indiana to improve its timeliness in approving, denying food stamps</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:18:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Kusmer</dc:creator>
		
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Judge orders Ind. to improve food stamp processing

INDIANAPOLIS — A federal judge has ordered Indiana&#8217;s partially privatized welfare intake system to speed up decisions on food stamp applications, but the state has a year to meet its first target.
U.S. District Judge Robert Miller issued a preliminary injunction last week in a class-action lawsuit covering every [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ind. lawmakers: Firing IBM from welfare contract puts Affiliated Computer Services under watch</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 21:48:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Kusmer</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[INDIANAPOLIS — Influential lawmakers said Tuesday that Indiana welfare subcontractor Affiliated Computer Services Inc. will come under closer scrutiny now that Gov. Mitch Daniels has fired IBM Corp. from the project.

Rep. Peggy Welch, a Bloomington Democrat who sits on both the State Budget Committee and the General Assembly&#8217;s Medicaid Oversight Commission, said some lawmakers wonder [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Critics of privatization say failed Indiana-IBM deal should be warning to other states</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/critics-of-privatization-say-failed-indiana-ibm-deal-should-be-warning-to-other-states-198490/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 22:15:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Kusmer</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana said it was going to get outsourcing right when it turned welfare eligibility services over to a private contractor in 2007. Now critics say the failed move is the latest warning that states should not allow for-profit companies to run social services.

The ambitious, $1.34 billion effort to automate applications for food stamps, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ind. governor cancels troubled $1.3 billion welfare privatization contract with IBM</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 23:37:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Kusmer</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana fired IBM Corp. on Thursday as the lead contractor on an ambitious, $1.34 billion project to automate applications for food stamps, Medicaid and other welfare benefits.

Gov. Mitch Daniels said the state informed IBM that it will lose its 10-year contract within 60 days because the Armonk, N.Y.-based company made too little progress [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Indiana governor cancels $1.3 billion welfare privatization contract with IBM partnership</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/indiana-governor-cancels-13-billion-welfare-privatization-contract-with-ibm-partnership-197326/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:47:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Kusmer</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana has ended its $1.34 billion deal with IBM Corp. to automate the application process for food stamps, Medicaid and other benefits, Gov. Mitch Daniels announced Thursday.

Daniels said he canceled the contract with Armonk, N.Y.-based IBM because the company did not make satisfactory progress to improve services as required by a corrective action [...]]]></description>
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		<title>W.Va., other states divert child support payments to help poor families get back on their feet</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/wva-other-states-divert-child-support-payments-to-help-poor-families-get-back-on-their-feet-187552/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 20:18:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>P.j. Dickerscheid</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Changes in how state governments are allowed to disperse child support payments to welfare families has put more money in the pocket of West Virginia resident Becky Salmons, allowing her to buy school supplies and medicine for her 17-year-old daughter.

West Virginia, Pennsylvania and Washington are among the states taking advantage of changes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oil-rich Norway&#8217;s leftist government poised to stay in power after close vote</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 23:37:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karl Ritter</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[OSLO — Norway&#8217;s left-leaning government appeared to have narrowly won re-election Monday after using oil money to shield the Nordic welfare state from the global recession, near-complete results showed.

If the results are confirmed, it would be the first time a government in Norway has survived an election in 16 years.
An official projection with 99 percent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oil-rich Norway&#8217;s leftist government close to re-election in narrow vote</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 22:57:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karl Ritter</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[OSLO — Norway&#8217;s left-leaning government appeared to have narrowly won re-election Monday after using oil money to shield the Nordic welfare state from the global recession, exit polls and near-complete results showed.

If the results are confirmed, it would be the first time a government in Norway has survived an election in 16 years.
An official projection [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Exit polls indicate Norway&#8217;s left-leaning government wins re-election</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/exit-polls-indicate-norways-left-leaning-government-wins-re-election-168253/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 20:24:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karl Ritter</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[OSLO — Norway&#8217;s left-leaning government appeared to have narrowly won re-election Monday after using oil money to shield the Nordic welfare state from the global recession, exit polls and partial results showed.

If confirmed by the official results, it would be the first time a government in Norway has survived an election in 16 years.
An official [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Exit polls: Norway&#8217;s left-leaning government wins re-election</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 19:29:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karl Ritter</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[OSLO — Two exit polls showed that Norway&#8217;s left-leaning government narrowly won re-election Monday in an election focused on how to manage the Nordic nation&#8217;s soaring oil wealth and seal cracks in its welfare system.

If confirmed by the official results, it would be the first time a government in Norway has survived an election since [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Exit poll: Norway&#8217;s left-leaning government wins re-election</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/exit-poll-norways-left-leaning-government-wins-re-election-168195/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 19:10:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karl Ritter</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[OSLO — An exit poll by national broadcaster NRK shows Norway&#8217;s left-leaning government winning re-election.

The survey released after voting ended Monday gave Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg&#8217;s Labor-led coalition 86 seats for a narrow majority in the 169-seat Parliament. The opposition parties got a combined 83 seats in the exit poll.
Official results are expected later Monday. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Left-wing gov&#8217;t facing splintered opposition in Norway vote focused on oil wealth, welfare</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/left-wing-govt-facing-splintered-opposition-in-norway-vote-focused-on-oil-wealth-welfare-167891/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 12:04:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karl Ritter</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[OSLO — Norway&#8217;s left-leaning government faced a splintered opposition Monday in an election focussed on how to manage the Nordic nation&#8217;s soaring oil wealth and seal cracks in its welfare system.

Polls released before the vote showed Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg&#8217;s Labor-led coalition risked losing its hold on Norway&#8217;s 169-seat Parliament. Stoltenberg, 50, could still remain [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Norway&#8217;s iron lady top challenge to leftist government in national elections</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 11:58:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian Macdougall</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[OSLO — Siv Jensen has an unusual ambition for a nation famous for its cradle-to-grave welfare system: she wants to go down in history as Norway&#8217;s Margaret Thatcher.

And polls leading up to Monday&#8217;s national election in this oil-rich Nordic state of 4.8 million people show the leader of the right-wing Progress Party may have a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US youth fare poorly in OECD survey of childhood welfare, despite above-average spending</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 21:10:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Keller</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[PARIS — American youths suffer among the industrialized world&#8217;s worst rates of infant mortality, teenage pregnancy and child poverty, even though the United States spends more per child than better-performing countries such as Switzerland, Japan and the Netherlands, a new survey indicates.

The OECD, a Paris-based watchdog of industrialized nations, urged the U.S. to shift more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US fares poorly in OECD survey of childhood welfare, despite above-average spending</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 14:10:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Keller</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[PARIS — America has some of the industrial world&#8217;s worst rates of infant mortality, teenage pregnancy and child poverty, even though it spends more per child than better-performing countries such as Switzerland, Japan and the Netherlands, a new survey indicates.

The OECD, a Paris-based watchdog of industrialized nations, urged the United States to shift more of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Schwarzenegger&#8217;s California budget draws critics from Democrats</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 16:10:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judy Lin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed a revised $85 billion budget and targeted welfare for deeper cuts, prompting threats from Democratic lawmakers to block his political agenda during his final months in office.&#8221;This kind of game playing by the governor doesn&#8217;t bode well for success in terms of water, corrections, pensions or any [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Schwarzenegger vetoes child welfare, Healthy Families spending as he signs $85B Calif. budget</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 02:33:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judy Lin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a revised $85 billion budget Tuesday that he said contained &#8220;the good, the bad and the ugly,&#8221; including additional cuts to child welfare programs, health care for the poor and AIDS prevention efforts.

Schwarzenegger used his line-item veto authority to save an additional $656 million that will let the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Schwarzenegger likely to cut health, welfare in signing revised Calif. budget</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 15:41:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judy Lin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Tuesday is expected to use his line-item veto power to make additional cuts to California&#8217;s latest spending plan — a move advocates fear could further hurt the poor.

Social service advocates worry the Republican governor has little choice but to go after money counties receive to administer welfare and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bond analyst: California&#8217;s new budget filled with accounting tricks, unlikely to help rating</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 07:05:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judy Lin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A bond analyst was skeptical Monday about California&#8217;s revised budget, saying it was filled with accounting tricks that would do little to improve the state&#8217;s poor credit rating.

In addition, lenders may not be satisfied with California&#8217;s latest spending plan, which combines $15 billion in cuts to education, prisons, parks and other aspects [...]]]></description>
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		<title>California Assembly passes most of $26B budget-balancing plan, sending it to Schwarzenegger</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2009 06:10:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judy Lin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The state Assembly has approved a plan to close most of California&#8217;s $26 billion budget deficit, sending the package of financial fixes to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.

The Assembly rejected two of the most controversial measures, a plan to take about $1 billion in transportation funding from local governments, and allowing oil drilling off [...]]]></description>
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		<title>California Senate passes budget-balancing plan, which awaits action in the Assembly</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 21:32:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judy Lin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The California Senate on Friday approved a plan to close the state&#8217;s $26 billion budget deficit, providing a glimmer of hope after weeks of fiscal gloom and putting the deal&#8217;s fate into the divided hands of the Assembly.

The complex legislative package of 31 bills remained stalled for hours as Assembly leaders struggled [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Calif lawmakers struggle to pass budget-balancing deal as many of its pieces come under fire</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 20:04:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judy Lin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The optimism that began the week when a deal was announced to close California&#8217;s $26 billion budget deficit gave way Friday to the workaday reality of pushing its many parts through a highly partisan legislature.

Throughout the week, the legislative leaders of the Senate and Assembly had said there was much to dislike [...]]]></description>
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		<title>California lawmakers begin long night of voting on compromise to close $26B budget deficit</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 14:49:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judy Lin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California lawmakers on Friday were considering a complex budget deal struck by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and legislative leaders that is designed to reverse the state&#8217;s slide toward insolvency.

The compromise before the 80-member Assembly and 40-member state Senate eliminates nearly 60 percent of a projected $26 billion deficit with spending cuts. The rest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Calif. lawmakers begin what is expected to be a drawn-out vote on budget-balancing bills</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:14:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judy Lin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California lawmakers on Thursday began voting on a complex budget deal struck by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and legislative leaders that is designed to reverse the state&#8217;s slide toward insolvency.

The compromise before the 80-member Assembly and 40-member state Senate eliminates nearly 60 percent of a projected $26 billion deficit with spending cuts. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Deal to close Calif. deficit shapes up as a temporary fix, unlikely to solve fiscal crisis</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/deal-to-close-calif-deficit-shapes-up-as-a-temporary-fix-unlikely-to-solve-fiscal-crisis-116600/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 06:35:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Samantha Young</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California&#8217;s deal to close its $26 billion budget gap may end up doing what Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger had hoped to avoid: kicking the state&#8217;s problems down the road.

Despite deep cuts to education and social programs, the deal struck late Monday is filled with assumptions and accounting gimmicks. Combined with a persistent recession, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Now the tough part: Calif.&#8217;s budget deal must be sold to lawmakers, who will hear objections</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/now-the-tough-part-califs-budget-deal-must-be-sold-to-lawmakers-who-will-hear-objections-116317/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 01:50:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judy Lin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California&#8217;s legislative leaders on Tuesday began lobbying their rank-and-file members to vote for a compromise designed to close the state&#8217;s $26 billion shortfall even as advocates objected to health care, transportation and public safety cuts.

The Republican and Democratic leaders of the Assembly and Senate began briefing their caucuses on a plan backed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>California &#8216;painfully&#8217; manages budget with $26 billion deficit</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/schwarzenegger-lawmakers-agree-on-closing-californias-26b-budget-shortfall-vote-ahead-115729/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 17:14:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judy Lin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California may soon be able to stop printing IOUs now that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and legislative leaders have agreed on a compromise plan to close the state&#8217;s $26 billion shortfall without tax increases.

The governor and lawmakers announced the compromise late Monday, nearly three weeks after the state began issuing pay-you-later warrants to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Education funding, welfare reforms emerge as main sticking points in California budget talks</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/education-funding-welfare-reforms-emerge-as-main-sticking-points-in-california-budget-talks-107464/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 07:58:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Samantha Young</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California&#8217;s top lawmakers on Sunday focused on cost-saving reforms to social welfare programs and how deeply to cut an array of state services as they dove into the complex task of closing the state&#8217;s $26 billion deficit.

Lawmakers warned that severe cuts to many state programs were unavoidable. But they also seemed more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Education funding, welfare reforms emerge as main sticking points in Calif. budget talks</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 04:06:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Samantha Young</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California&#8217;s top lawmakers on Sunday focused on cost-saving reforms to social welfare programs and how deeply to cut an array of state services as they dove into the complex task of closing the state&#8217;s $26 billion deficit.

Lawmakers on both sides warned that severe cuts to many state programs were unavoidable. But they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Governor&#8217;s proposals to cut assistance for poor, disabled stalls budget talks</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/governors-proposals-to-cut-assistance-for-poor-disabled-stalls-budget-talks-103558/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 05:53:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judy Lin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger&#8217;s insistence on cost-cutting measures to weed out what he has described as &#8220;waste, fraud and abuse&#8221; in California&#8217;s social service programs has struck a nerve with Democrats, welfare advocates and the frail.

They say the Republican governor is using the poor as a scapegoat for the state&#8217;s $26.3 billion budget [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Schwarzenegger says his welfare reforms are long overdue, appropriate for budget talks</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/schwarzenegger-says-his-welfare-reforms-are-long-overdue-appropriate-for-budget-talks-103478/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 04:41:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Wednesday defended his proposals to reform welfare and other social programs as negotiations over closing California&#8217;s $26.3 billion deficit remained frozen.

Democrats are upset that Schwarzenegger has demanded the reforms as part of any budget-balancing deal, saying such issues should be discussed separately from the state&#8217;s annual spending plan. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AP Exclusive: Indiana considers canceling IBM-led welfare project if no improvements by fall</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/ap-exclusive-indiana-considers-canceling-ibm-led-welfare-project-if-no-improvements-by-fall-101964/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 23:18:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Kusmer</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana&#8217;s privately run welfare project has so many problems that the state could start taking steps to cancel its $1.16 billion contract with IBM as early as this fall, a state official said Tuesday.

Secretary Anne Murphy of the Indiana Family and Social Services Administration said she asked lead vendor IBM Corp. to submit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Namibian seal hunt set to go on despite objections, more than 90,000 to be clubbed</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 23:49:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle Theriault</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[JOHANNESBURG — Namibia&#8217;s annual commercial seal hunt will go on despite objections by animal welfare groups, a government official said Monday.

Frans Tsheehama of the Namibian fisheries and marine resources ministry said that the season started on July 1 and will run until Nov. 15.
Hunters are expected to club over 90,000 seals, including 85,000 pups.
The hunt [...]]]></description>
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		<title>As fiscal year ends, lawmakers in Calif. and other states race to keep governments running</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/as-fiscal-year-ends-lawmakers-in-calif-and-other-states-race-to-keep-governments-running-96121/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 06:20:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Lawrence</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Legislators in more than a half-dozen states, their revenues evaporating in the recession, frantically worked to stave off government shutdowns and devastating service cuts. California failed to meet a midnight deadline and now may need to issue IOUs instead of paying bills.

Across the country, lawmakers were feeling the heat as their legislatures [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meltdown 101: How did California get into its budget mess, and what if it doesn&#8217;t get out?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 05:08:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Verdin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California&#8217;s budget shortfall isn&#8217;t just an abstract problem involving some out-of-whack numbers. It&#8217;s a serious crisis that&#8217;s threatening to hurt people in the wallet — in July alone, the state is talking about handing out $3 billion in IOUs to everyone from contractors to welfare recipients.

How exactly did California get into this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Calif. budget deadline looms as lawmakers make no progress on fixing $24.3B state deficit</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:40:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Lawrence</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A midnight deadline loomed Tuesday as California lawmakers and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger dueled over ways to cut into a $24.3 billion budget deficit or face having to issue IOUs to cover the state&#8217;s bills.

Democrats lawmakers, the majority in both houses, tried two approaches Monday but both failed to draw Republican support.
Voting almost [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Government reports show animal welfare violations at 3 research labs</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2009 02:46:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frederic J. Frommer</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Government inspection reports cited three research laboratories for a host of animal welfare violations, ranging from problems with surgeries that forced researchers to euthanize a dog and a primate to leaving a live hamster in a walk-in freezer.

The reports, uncovered by an animal rights group, detail violations at BioReliance Corp., Charles River Laboratories [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pockets empty, Calif considers deep cuts in spending for the state&#8217;s most vulnerable residents</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 01:43:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judy Lin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[SACRAMENTO, Calif. — With empty pockets and maxed-out credit, California is debating whether it can continue honoring all parts of its social contract with the state&#8217;s most vulnerable residents.

The state faces an unprecedented drop in tax revenue and a widening budget deficit amid the deepest recession in decades, prompting Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to propose cost-cutting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ireland&#8217;s unemployment rate hits 13-year high of 11.8 percent; welfare claims at record high</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 20:29:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shawn Pogatchnik</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[DUBLIN — Ireland&#8217;s unemployment rate hit a 13-year high of 11.8 percent in May as a deepening recession pushed the welfare lines to record lengths, the Central Statistics Office reported Friday.

The report said the number of people claiming jobless benefits has nearly doubled over the past year to 397,000, an unprecedented high dating back to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Divided over budget, California legislature finds common ground on farm animal welfare issues</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 15:22:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracie Cone</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[FRESNO, Calif. — California voters&#8217; landslide support last November of an initiative on the treatment of farm animals appears to have helped a state legislature bitterly divided over the budget find common ground.

So far this year, bills have sailed from one chamber to the other that would ban docking the tails of milk cows, stop [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Euro-zone official says Europe&#8217;s surging jobless rate will create a social crisis</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 04:48:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AP</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[BRUSSELS — The euro-zone&#8217;s top economy official said Monday that Europe was &#8220;heading toward a social crisis&#8221; as unemployment rates rocket to a postwar record.

The European Commission predicted earlier that the jobless rate in the 16 nations that use the euro would climb to 9.9 percent this year and 11.5 percent next year — the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poor in Malaysia to receive welfare even if they own TV, cable</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 12:26:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — An official says Malaysia will scrap a rule that denies government welfare to poor people if they own a television set or cable connection at home.

Community Development Minister Shahrizat Abdul Jalil says the Welfare Department would introduce a &#8220;more effective and realistic&#8221; system for providing aid. She says assets such as [...]]]></description>
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