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Paterson to propose raising basic welfare grant
Gov. David A. Paterson will propose raising the basic welfare grant tomorrow for the first time in 18 years and call for expanding low-income health care programs to bolster the frayed safety net during what aides said will be a long, painful recession.
In his budget plan for 2009-10, Paterson will ask the legislature to boost welfare checks by 30 percent over the next three years, from the...
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