...reported about the number of people affected were arrested and are still in jail. The government announced the alcohol reform laws shortly after and some people feel like that was a distraction to attract people's attention away from the deaths...
...order allowing states to waive those requirements. The law has indeed been gutted. Here's how:The 1996 welfare reform law required that a portion of the able-bodied adults in the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program...
...Studies show the tax credit was the most important factor in reducing welfare rolls, even more so than the 1996 welfare-reform law. Now geared toward single- parent families, the credit could be expanded to help two-parent families and parents...
...help a Kenosha, Wis., community center cover health care costs of low-income families under Obama's health care reform law - the very program he and Romney say they will repeal if they win the White House. Ryan spokesman Brendan Buck said...
...President Obama's Affordable Care Act is constitutional. Twenty-six states have filed challenges to the health-care reform law. The main issue, on which the lower courts have split, is whether Congress had the power to pass this law under the...
...years.Those figures don't cover independent agencies, where most of the rulemaking under the Dodd-Frank financial reform law, another major source of overregulation gripes, is happening.Wall Street firms do have to comply with a host of new...
...The least candidates can do is to let the public know who's underwriting their presidential bids.A 2007 lobbying reform law required campaigns to report bundlers who are also registered lobbyists. Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney lists...
...leading efforts at creating an exchange, others are adamantly opposed to any plans that involve the federal health care reform law.Groups such as the Minnesota Chamber of Commerce support Minnesota taking the lead to design an exchange. Vice President...
...endorsed the movement's spirit and goals.Now what?The pols are in no position to enact any further left-populist reforms - laws that create, say, a financial transaction tax, or that make it easier for employees to form unions - so long as...
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