S.F. leaders defeat proposal to change zoo into a rescue facility (San Francisco Chronicle)
The San Francisco Zoo will remain as is, after the Board of Supervisors today rejected a proposal that would have turned the institution into a rescue facility. Even a last-ditch effort by Supervisor Chris Daly, the measure's author, to water down the... SourceRead More... | Comments
Obama pushes economic reform (Chicago Tribune)
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Solons pick on DAR's P470-M proposed travel budget (GMA News)
MANILA, Philippines - The House Appropriations Committee on Wednesday castigated Agrarian Reform Secretary Nasser Pangandaman for proposing a P470 million budget allocation for his department in the 2009 budget.SourceRead More... | Comments
Sweden announces further income tax cuts (AP via Yahoo! Finance)
Sweden's center-right government announced a new round of tax cuts Tuesday, saying it will lower income taxes by 15 billion kronor in 2009 as it continues to reform the country's welfare state.SourceRead More... | Comments
Immigration Reform Law (Metropolitan News-Enterprise)
Sec. 1623, part of the 1996 immigration reform law known as IIRIRA, provides that “an alien who is not lawfully present in the United States shall not be eligible on the basis of residence within a State...for any postsecondary education benefit unless a citizen or national of the United States is eligible for such a benefit...without regard to whether the citizen or national is such a resident.”SourceRead More... | Comments
California's In-State Tuition Policy for Illegal Aliens Is Unconstitutional, Rules State Appeals Court (PR Newswire via Yahoo! News)
Precedent Setting Ruling May Be Used to Challenge Many State Benefits for Illegal Aliens, Says Immigration Reform Law InstituteSourceRead More... | Comments
Vietnam raises pension to help retirees deal with inflation (People's Daily)
Vietnamese government will raise retirees' payments and monthly allowances for social welfare beneficiaries by 15 percent as of next month in a move to help them deal with rising inflation, Vietnam News Agency reported here Monday. The increase was intended to improve the living conditions of retirees and social welfare beneficiaries, and was following the roadmap for salary reform, the agency ...SourceRead More... | Comments
Unions blast welfare reform plan (BBC News)
The government's welfare reform plans have been criticised as a "fundamental attack on the welfare state", on the last day of the TUC conference.SourceRead More... | Comments
NegOr farmers oppose farmland as collateral (Sun Star)
SEVERAL farmers groups in Negros Oriental advocating for the extension of government's Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (Carp) have expressed opposition to a pending bill at the House of Representatives legalizing farmland as collateral.SourceRead More... | Comments
This 'n' That: The rich fare well, the poor get welfare (The Canton Repository)
In the 1980s, President Ronald Reagan got a lot of mileage out of the "welfare queen," a mythical woman living high on the dole and driving a Cadillac.SourceRead More... | Comments
