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George H.W. Bush: No. I think what it is now is that if you save more than $1,000, you're off of welfare. We're talking about making it…

On the recordMay 12, 1992
No. I think what it is now is that if you save more than $1,000, you're off of welfare. We're talking about making it $10,000 so people can at least save a little bit of money while they're on welfare. HOPE, $1 billion in '93, that's what we're asking for. Enterprise zones, it's hard to put a price on that because we are trying to make it more attractive in terms of how the tax structure will treat these investors. But there's no price tag on that one. It is a very, very important part of it. Education, you know the numbers there, I think. We're not asking for anything different than we've proposed on that one. Welfare reform, I've told you the difference there. And on youth jobs there's, I think it's 683 for the summer, and now we're going up for new authorization on youth apprenticeship and Job Training 2000.
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George H.W. Bush
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