Argentine president decrees $2.6 billion in cash handouts for children of unemployed
Argentine leader decrees subsidies for poor kids Federal judge orders Indiana to improve its timeliness in approving, denying food stamps
Judge orders Ind. to improve food stamp processing Ind. lawmakers: Firing IBM from welfare contract puts Affiliated Computer Services under watchINDIANAPOLIS — 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. Critics of privatization say failed Indiana-IBM deal should be warning to other statesINDIANAPOLIS — 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. Ind. governor cancels troubled $1.3 billion welfare privatization contract with IBMINDIANAPOLIS — 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. Indiana governor cancels $1.3 billion welfare privatization contract with IBM partnershipINDIANAPOLIS — 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. W.Va., other states divert child support payments to help poor families get back on their feetCHARLESTON, 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. Oil-rich Norway’s leftist government poised to stay in power after close voteOSLO — Norway’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. Oil-rich Norway’s leftist government close to re-election in narrow voteOSLO — Norway’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. Exit polls indicate Norway’s left-leaning government wins re-electionOSLO — Norway’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. Exit polls: Norway’s left-leaning government wins re-electionOSLO — Two exit polls showed that Norway’s left-leaning government narrowly won re-election Monday in an election focused on how to manage the Nordic nation’s soaring oil wealth and seal cracks in its welfare system. Exit poll: Norway’s left-leaning government wins re-electionOSLO — An exit poll by national broadcaster NRK shows Norway’s left-leaning government winning re-election. Left-wing gov’t facing splintered opposition in Norway vote focused on oil wealth, welfareOSLO — Norway’s left-leaning government faced a splintered opposition Monday in an election focussed on how to manage the Nordic nation’s soaring oil wealth and seal cracks in its welfare system. Norway’s iron lady top challenge to leftist government in national electionsOSLO — 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’s Margaret Thatcher. US youth fare poorly in OECD survey of childhood welfare, despite above-average spendingPARIS — American youths suffer among the industrialized world’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. US fares poorly in OECD survey of childhood welfare, despite above-average spendingPARIS — America has some of the industrial world’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. Schwarzenegger’s California budget draws critics from Democrats
Schwarzenegger vetoes child welfare, Healthy Families spending as he signs $85B Calif. budgetSACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a revised $85 billion budget Tuesday that he said contained “the good, the bad and the ugly,” including additional cuts to child welfare programs, health care for the poor and AIDS prevention efforts. Schwarzenegger likely to cut health, welfare in signing revised Calif. budgetSACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Tuesday is expected to use his line-item veto power to make additional cuts to California’s latest spending plan — a move advocates fear could further hurt the poor. Bond analyst: California’s new budget filled with accounting tricks, unlikely to help ratingSACRAMENTO, Calif. — A bond analyst was skeptical Monday about California’s revised budget, saying it was filled with accounting tricks that would do little to improve the state’s poor credit rating. California Assembly passes most of $26B budget-balancing plan, sending it to SchwarzeneggerSACRAMENTO, Calif. — The state Assembly has approved a plan to close most of California’s $26 billion budget deficit, sending the package of financial fixes to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. California Senate passes budget-balancing plan, which awaits action in the AssemblySACRAMENTO, Calif. — The California Senate on Friday approved a plan to close the state’s $26 billion budget deficit, providing a glimmer of hope after weeks of fiscal gloom and putting the deal’s fate into the divided hands of the Assembly. Calif lawmakers struggle to pass budget-balancing deal as many of its pieces come under fireSACRAMENTO, Calif. — The optimism that began the week when a deal was announced to close California’s $26 billion budget deficit gave way Friday to the workaday reality of pushing its many parts through a highly partisan legislature. California lawmakers begin long night of voting on compromise to close $26B budget deficitSACRAMENTO, 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’s slide toward insolvency. Calif. lawmakers begin what is expected to be a drawn-out vote on budget-balancing billsSACRAMENTO, 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’s slide toward insolvency. Deal to close Calif. deficit shapes up as a temporary fix, unlikely to solve fiscal crisisSACRAMENTO, Calif. — California’s deal to close its $26 billion budget gap may end up doing what Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger had hoped to avoid: kicking the state’s problems down the road. Now the tough part: Calif.’s budget deal must be sold to lawmakers, who will hear objectionsSACRAMENTO, Calif. — California’s legislative leaders on Tuesday began lobbying their rank-and-file members to vote for a compromise designed to close the state’s $26 billion shortfall even as advocates objected to health care, transportation and public safety cuts. California ‘painfully’ manages budget with $26 billion deficit
Education funding, welfare reforms emerge as main sticking points in California budget talksSACRAMENTO, Calif. — California’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’s $26 billion deficit. Education funding, welfare reforms emerge as main sticking points in Calif. budget talksSACRAMENTO, Calif. — California’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’s $26 billion deficit. |
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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.”This kind of game playing by the governor doesn’t bode well for success in terms of water, corrections, pensions or any of the other items that he is looking to in order to build some kind of real legacy,” Assembly Speaker Karen Bass said in a statement Tuesday after the Republican governor announced his vetoes.
