It appears some Democrats, who might have voted for the House bill, were repelled by a last-minute Republican amendment that added a punitive work requirement to food stamp eligibility rules.
A bipartisan coalition in the Senate favors re-enacting the welfare law with enough money for day care and other support for welfare recipients, and without the punitive work requirements and budget cuts in the House version.
The EVCA said that Europe's VC industry was "in deep crisis" and that a new regulation debated in Brussels would make life even harder by burdening funds with "punitive disclosure requirements".Still, the high-tech industry has moved up the political agenda, notably in Brussels.
Reprehensible right-wing attacks on democracy -- including false claims of voter fraud, voter-list purges, and punitive ID requirements like the one recently declared unconstitutional in Wisconsin -- are finally getting the scrutiny they deserve.
The approach is multifaceted and punitive, tightening bail requirements, increasing surveillance and keeping young people in the justice system for longer sentences.
For much of the last four decades, America decided to "manage" chronic homelessness through the use of shelters, transitional housing and punitive measures to require homeless folks to comply with programmatic requirements.
This is due particularly to NCLB's unrealistic, ineffective, punitive and harmful accountability requirements.
Advocates of the poor, however, have long insisted that the work requirements could be punitive.
The amendments would allow for class-action lawsuits, with compensatory and punitive damages; eliminate the "same establishment" requirement; make it harder for employers to explain away wage differentials; direct the Labor Department to create guidelines for "comparable" jobs; and make it illegal to fire or reprimand employees for talking about pay.
Moreover, the disclosure requirements for lobbying would be absurdly punitive toward unions.
