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HARRISBURG, Pa., March 31, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Inspector General Kenya Mann Faulkner today released the following recent Office of Inspector General (OIG) welfare fraud case adjudications. The defendants pleaded guilty to welfare fraud and/ or were sentenced for their crimes during February. Those who willfully defraud the public benefit programs will eventually be caught and punished accordingly. Part of that punishment includes restoring the taxpayers' money by being ordered to pay full restitution," Inspector General Faulkner said. "These adjudications are examples of the important work the Office of Inspector General does for the taxpayers and will hopefully serve as a deterrent to anyone thinking about trying to cheat the system.
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Breck England (Readers' Forum, Sept. 19) speculates that the Founding Fathers intended the term "general welfare" to include government-provided health care. There is no need to guess at what the writers of the Constitution meant by the term general welfare; let's look at what the founders themselves say. James Madison, the father of the Constitution, stated, "With respect to the two words 'general welfare,' I have always regarded them as qualified by the detail of powers connected with them. To take them in a literal and unlimited sense would be a metamorphosis of the Constitution into a character which there is a host of proofs was not contemplated by its creators." Thomas Jefferson further clarified that "Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare but only t...
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HARRISBURG, Pa., Nov. 28, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Nine Pennsylvania residents pleaded guilty to welfare fraud and/or were sentenced for their crimes during October, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) announced today. Finding and prosecuting cases of welfare fraud is one of our highest priorities," Inspector General Kenya Mann Faulkner said. "Every dime lost to fraud means there is one less dime available to help needy individuals who are truly eligible for public assistance.
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During the ensuing eight years, the annual number of earmarks rose from around 3,000 to over 14.000.7 Because of strong congressional incentives toward special interest spending, a mere change in party control is unlikely to bring a lasting cure.8 Moreover, since 1936, when the Supreme Court converted the Taxation Clause of Article I, section 8 into an omnibus Taxing-and-Spending Clause,9 the Court invariably has deferred to congressional determination that spending programs, no matter how narrowly targeted or remote from enumerated purposes, somehow provide for . . . the general Welfare of the United States.
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HARRISBURG, Pa., Sept. 14, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ - Pennsylvanians receiving public assistance made $5.2 million in out- of-state purchases or cash withdrawals in May 2010 using Electronic Benefits Transfer cards, but the Department of the Auditor General could not analyze the legality of any of the 94,947 transactions because the Department of Public Welfare, which issues the debit cards, refused repeated requests to provide records and supporting documentation, Auditor General Jack Wagner said today. Wagner, the state's independent fiscal watchdog, said that his auditors requested EBT information from the Department of Public Welfare on Aug. 9, 2010, Sept. 14, 2010, Nov. 15, 2010, and April 21, 2011. DPW repeatedly denied the requests.
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By constructing a two-sector (high-tech and low-tech) model, this paper examines the effects of technological progress occurred in the high-tech sector on skilled-unskilled wage gap and welfare. In order to introduce the endogenous separation mechanism of skilled and unskilled workers, this paper assumes heterogeneous learning abilities among workers. Some workers who possess low learning abilities suffer larger disutility from the skill training. Since a technological progress of high-tech sector increases the skilled wage, it gives an additional incentive to unskilled workers so as to become skilled. Then, the proportion of skilled workers becomes large, and the high-tech sector also develops - through the increasing returns to scale in the range of varieties of skilled labor.
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I was shocked and sickened to read The Washington Times editorial pertaining to the constitutionality of Obamacare ("Constitutionally unhealthy 'reform,'" Editorial, Thursday). As the loudest conservative voice in Washington, you hung your hat on the weakest arguments. Those points potentially can be repaired before final passage, although history shows that Congress probably won't bother making such corrections. While you rightly mention the Article I, Sec. 8 limitations, you rest your case on the notion that the "general welfare" clause must be "uniform" rather than the fact that health care is not listed within the enumerated powers at all. You have adopted the definition of the liberals, that the general welfare clause empowers the government to do pretty much anything it wants as l...
