Show Sunday February 22 Ogden 1987 IX National Welfare reform tops agenda of governors WASHINGTON (AP) — Leaders of the National Governors Association hoping to leave their imprint on welfare reforms met with top Reagan administration officials Saturday and said afterward they saw bipartisan agreement on changes aimed at reducing government dependencyThe governors opening their annual winter meeting said they expected to endorse a welfare plan calling for w'ork requiregoal a ments and as a national standard for minimum then attempt to sell it to the US payments Arkansas Gov Bill Clinton a Congress and to reconcile it with Democrat who is chairman of the the president’s position on the isassociation said the governors sue" Clinton said would try to sell the reforms by Republican Gov John Sununu of New Hampshire vice chairtying them to the issue of increasing the productivity of American man of the governors said he workers and reversing the declinand Clinton were among 15 governors who met Saturday morning US competitiveness in world markets — rather than as an exing on the welfare proposals with Labor Secretary William Brock pansion of government support for the poor Education Secretary William Ben“I hope at the end of this connett Health and Human Services ference the governors will adopt Secretary Otis Bowen and White and I hope unanimously a new House officials He said that while President position on welfare reform and- - welfare National Reagan’s welfare proposal has a different emphasis on experimentation there were no major differences in goals and objectives Delaware Gov Michael Castle a Republican said any differences were “diminimus" “1 think you’ll see Republican governors at the conference endorsing a proposal of this nature and I think it is not going to be perceived as in conflict with what the White House proposes" Sununu said In a report issued at the outset of the meeting the association Shop tveekdays briefs warned "A permanent underclass is being created in which poverty passes from one generation to the next" The discussions are being held against a backdrop of increased support for major welfare change While the president’s plan is not yet in final form Congress is working on its own proposals that go further “We will I hope adopt a comprehensive bipartisan welfare reform policy which represents a considerable departure from the present svstem and which is very Saturday 10-- 9 different from what the president has proposed" Clinton said "What we want to do is turn what is now primarily a payments system with a minor work component into a system that is first and foremost a jobs program supported by an income assistance component" The gathering is the governors first since last November’s elections added 21 new faces to their number and greatly strengthened the Republican presence at the governors’ table 10-- 7 Innocent man spends six months in jail PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A man who spent six months in jail awaiting trial on robbery charges unable to make $500 bail was freed after a lawyer uncovered evidence he was at work in another state the day the robbery was committed “It was bad” Sylvester Kitchen told The Philadelphia Inquirer after a hearing last week when charges were dropped “It was not the place for me” “I told them all along that they had the wrong person” said Kitchen 22 NAACP 1995- - 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