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Tuesday • November 28, 1995
Page 5 • The Battalion
NEWS
Student Senate to host
Constituency Day today
The Student Senate will holds its
third Constituency Day of the fall from
11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Student senators will be at tables at
the Zachry Engineering Center, MSC,
Sbisa Dining Hall, the Kleberg Animal
and Food Sciences Building, the Corps
Plaza and the Wehner Building.
Students are encouraged to voice
their concerns to their respective
senators.
^ Bush, Hutchison work
todoim toward block grants
self. “
AUSTIN (AP) — Gov. George W.
Bush and U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchi
son say the best people to take care of
Texans' needs are other Texans.
Bush and Mrs. Hutchison spoke
Monday at the Capitol, continuing
their push for Congress to turn over
fpiore responsibilities for social pro
grams to the states by way of block
grants. The grants would allow states
to decide how federal money would
be spent on such services as welfare.
They also, though, would limit the
growth of such programs.
What we want is the freedom nec
essary to make the system work better
than it is today," Bush told reporters. "If
you think the current system has
worked, you're not looking at the facts.
... What Senator Hutchison and the
Congressional leadership is saying is
let's try something different. Let's recog
nize failure and try something different."
IE BaTOU
waited
Anti-abortion activists
dealt blow by court
WASHINGTON (AP) — The
Supreme Court piled On more bad
news for anti-abortion activists Mon
day, refusing to free five demonstrators
from paying nearly $100,000 in lawyer
fees to an abortion clinic they targeted.
The action, taken without comment
in a case from Sacramento, Calif., ex
tended abortion foes' recent losing
streak in the nation's highest court. It
marked the first time the issue of lawyer-
fee awards in abortion-linked litigation
had been considered by the justices.
"That the court would let this
$100,000 penalty stand is outrageous,
and sends a very chilling message to
pro-life demonstrators," said Jay Seku-
low, a lawyer with the anti-abortion
American Center for Law and Justice.
State JOBS program
reduces welfare rolls
□ The program, which
includes classes and
job skill training,
together with a strong
economy, is helping
Texas families earn
incomes and get off
welfare.
AUSTIN (AP) — State wel
fare officials on Monday credit
ed the agency’s Jobs Opportuni
ties and Basic Skills program
with reducing the state’s wel
fare rolls by 35,000 over the
past fiscal year.
Michael A. Jones, a
spokesman for the Department
of Human Services, said rough
ly 90,000 adults receiving Aid
to Families with Dependent
Children participated in vari
ous levels of the JOBS program
during fiscal year 1995, which
ended Aug. 31.
“A stable job is the best cure
to the poverty which shackles
many low-income Texas fami
lies,” said DHS Commissioner
Burt Raiford. "During the last
fiscal year, 35,008 Texans found
work thanks to the dozens of
services received from JOBS.”
According to DHS, 763,800
Texans will receive welfare
benefits in 1995, down from
786,405 recipients in 1994.
The fact that just over 1-in-
3 participants in the JOBS
program found work in fiscal
year 1995 was aided, in part,
by the state’s strong economy,,
Jones said.
“It’s gradual improvement,”
he said. “If we’re not in a reces
sion, there are jobs being creat
ed at least in the service sector.
People coming off welfare will
be able to move up as the econ
omy continues to grow.”
Gov. George W. Bush, who
said he hadn’t yet seen the
DHS report, said he was en
couraged that the JOBS pro
gram is having success.
“We are going to be a results-
oriented administration,” Bush
said. “If it is indeed working, it
will be funded under the new
workforce training programs in
the state of Texas. If it doesn’t
work, it won’t be funded.”
Jones said he didn’t have
any figures indicating how
many AFDC recipients who
leave the state’s welfare Lolls
ultimately return.
“As they move into that sec
ond and third job, they are re
ally moving permanently away
from welfare,” Jones said.
“In general, most AFDC re
cipients receive benefits for two
years or less. But a good num
ber of them, at some point in
their lives, come back to wel
fare, especially if they don’t
have a lot of job skills. Much of
it depends on the economy.”
JOBS is a federal-state pro
gram created in 1990 to assist
AFDC recipients. JOBS ser
vices include basic literacy
classes, high school or GED
courses, job skills training and
unpaid work assignments.
The program is available in
the 87 counties wliere most
AFDC families reside, accord
ing to DHS officials.
The 5-year-old program is
being transferred next year
from Human Services to the
new Texas Workforce Commis
sion, which replaced the Texas
Employment Commission.
DHS officials say more than
75 percent of the adults leaving
the JOBS program in fiscal
year 1995 found work paying
above the federal minimum
wage of $4.25.
The former JOBS partici
pants found work in pay scales
ranging from $4.50 per hour to
nearly $8.00 per hour, accord
ing to DHS. The average wage
for all of the former JOBS
clients was $5.33 per hour, ac
cording to DHS.
Roughly two-thirds of the
JOBS clients found clerical, sales
or service jobs, according to DHS.
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