safety-net

Perry isn't backing down from calling the safety-net program a "Ponzi scheme."

SFGate: Top News Stories By PHILIP ELLIOTT 2011

So-called safety-net hospitals that serve disproportionate numbers of

NYT > Home Page By RONI CARYN RABIN 2011

Greater New York Hospital Association, an industry group, told the panel that so-called safety-net hospitals, serving the poorest patients, were in trouble not just in Brooklyn but all over the state, because of state decisions under former Govs.

NYT > Home Page By ANEMONA HARTOCOLLIS 2011

Rep. Keith Ellison D., Minn., co-chairman of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, was not impressed by Mr. Obama's veto threat, saying it still gave Republicans an opening to cut safety-net programs.

Obama Yokes Benefit Cuts to New Taxes Carol E. Lee 2011

More substantively, most Republicans remain strongly opposed to tax increases, while Democrats are equally against cutting safety-net programs, making any broad budget agreement difficult.

Back From Break, Lawmakers Hope to End Rancor Naftali Bendavid 2011

Progressive, modified E-Verify will remove the stigma of some – BUT NOT ALL – corruption in the programs, meant as a safety-net for citizens and permanent residents?

Wonk Room » Anti-Immigrant Hate Group Director Dan Stein Thinks ‘Illegal Aliens’ Will Receive Health Care 2009

The plan Mr. Obama is considering also would recommend the congressional committee come up with a package that reduces the federal budget deficit by much more that its mandate of $1.5 trillion over the next decade, a senior administration official said, through changes in the tax code and social safety-net programs.

President Weighs Asking Panel for Stimulus Measures Carol E. Lee 2011

They were to be evenly divided between the Pentagon and domestic programs, while basic safety-net programs such as Medicaid and Medicare benefits would be exempt.

Deficit Panel Folds Its Tent Janet Hook 2011

But the last time I looked, college-grads in Scranton hadn't organized themselves to dominate the political system by pouring massive amounts of dollars into campaigns to elect people committed to more income inequality and a repeal of the New Deal's social safety-net.

Richard Brodsky: Defending the Indefensible: David Brooks on Income Inequality Richard Brodsky 2011

But the last time I looked, college-grads in Scranton hadn't organized themselves to dominate the political system by pouring massive amounts of dollars into campaigns to elect people committed to more income inequality and a repeal of the New Deal's social safety-net.

Richard Brodsky: Defending the Indefensible: David Brooks on Income Inequality Richard Brodsky 2011