Many Democratic senators consider the work requirements in the House bill too strict, and they want to give states more freedom to meet those requirements by counting education and training as work.
Current federal and state rules allow localities to let welfare recipients satisfy work requirements by counting class time, work-study jobs and internships.
According to an analysis by the Prison Policy Initiative, a research group based in Massachusetts, Senator Little's current district is one of seven in New York that meet federal population requirements by counting inmates as residents.
The maximality requirement prevents counting teapots that are proper parts of other teapots, and the self-connectedness requirement disqualifies sums of parts from different teapots.
The state got around the physical presence requirement by counting affiliates as part of Amazon.
Documentation of early post-colonial censuses demonstrates the huge effort put into achieving a good census (Randall et al. 2015), in particular, the primary requirement of counting of each individual once and once only.
This NLDA model is formulated based on energy principles coupled with a cumulative damage parameter that accounts for the progressive damage accumulation dictated by the path of the load history without any requirement for counting of cycles as have been done in current practice.
The number of authors listed per article before and after the introduction of explicit author contribution requirements were counted and compared with that found for the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) that did not require such disclosure.
Nevertheless bioenergy contributes to the Renewable-Energy Directive 2009/28/EC (which sets a target of 10% renewable energy in transport) and only biofuels meeting the binding sustainability requirements may count on the obligations, the cultivation of energy crops and even the energetic use of biomass is under increasingly controversial debate in Germany.
And he said that winning the panel's imprimatur to study some of those methods many of which are already in use by other countries might win over "stakeholders" worried that any changes will pose a threat to the constitutional requirement to count everyone in the United States.
And then as a counterpoint to my column, here's Jonathan Cohn taking on same mix of factors I discuss — rising premiums, new subsidies, and more comprehensive requirements for what counts as acceptable insurance coverage — and offering the glass-is-more-than-half-full take.
