Compared with the original Minnesota Family Investment Program, the new version lowers income eligibility, provides less training, decreases incentives, stiffens sanctions and includes time limits.
But by the time the results of that pilot were known, it had been replaced by a far less generous statewide program that lowered income eligibility, decreased training and incentives, stiffened sanctions and set time limits.
The dangerous proposed amendment to the country's penal code, discussions on which begin in Congress on Thursday, would also increase sanctions and jail times for healthcare providers and others accused of "promoting" abortion services.
President Obama, meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel earlier this week, counseled caution, urged the Israelis to give diplomacy and sanctions more time, and castigated Republican critics for what Mr. Obama described as a promoting a drumbeat to war with Iran.
1 For all injuries, the following information was required to be documented: time of injury (minute in the match), injured body part and type of injury, circumstances (non-contact, contact and foul play) and consequences of injury (referee's sanction, treatment, and time-loss in training or match).
It was the fourth time in a week that the Obama administration had escalated the sanctions and the first time it accused Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, of directing an effort to bypass them.
He has often seemed frustrated by the Americans' insistence on giving sanctions and diplomacy more time to work.
"The legs of Iran's economy are now free of the chains of sanctions, and it's time to build and grow," President Rouhani tweeted on January 17th, a day after international sanctions were lifted.
While the two men have had an often contentious relationship over Middle East diplomacy, American officials emerged from that exchange persuaded that Mr. Netanyahu was willing to give economic sanctions and other steps time to work.
