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- Housing: Help low-income purchasers, and housing developers. (Oct 28)
- Housing: Use HUD rental vouchers for first home purchase. (Oct 28)
- Bush’s Texan philosophy for the poor: up-by-the-bootstraps. (Oct 16)
- Blueprint: promote charity, community, and safety. (Sep 17)
- Transform low-income rentals to home ownership. (Aug 3)
- Focus welfare on transition to work & responsibility. (Jun 5)
- $1.7B over 5 years for home rehabs in poor neighborhoods. (Apr 19)
- 50% tax credits for 20,000 home rehabs per year. (Apr 19)
- New Prosperity Initiative: rent vouchers; homeowner credits. (Apr 11)
- $1B & tax credits for Individual Development Accounts. (Apr 11)
- Remove tax “tollbooths” for poor single moms. (Jan 22)
- Supports low-income heating oil assistance program. (Dec 1999)
- Work and responsibility to replace welfare. (Dec 1999)
- Too much government fosters dependency. (Dec 1999)
Faith-based organizations
- Government solving social problems crowds out compassion. (Oct 31)
- Devolve welfare to both state and private charities. (Sep 30)
- Fund faith-based private programs that promote independence. (Jun 27)
- Compassion Capital Fund to foster church-based welfare. (Apr 2)
- Church-based solutions for drugs, daycare, & crime. (Apr 2)
- “No-strings” vouchers for religious groups to do charity. (Jan 22)
- Religious charities deserve government support. (Dec 1999)
- Churches provide “armies of compassion” to help the poor. (Oct 1999)
- Look first to faith-based organizations. (Aug 1999)
- Religious groups compete for state service contracts. (Jun 1999)
Labor
- Flex-time & family-oriented work rules via tax code. (Oct 6)
- Tax breaks, child care & bus fare for working recipients. (Jul 1998)
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Al Gore on Welfare & Labor
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