Lawyers for a group seeking to block the scheme claimed the impact on farming businesses was inadequately considered.

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Food-stamp participation rose by 45% between December 2007 and December 2009, CBPP calculates, while the number of families receiving cash grants under TANF, a block-grant scheme, rose by just 13%.

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Part of the scheme would see the stable block converted for office use.

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Payment processors and ad networkers would also be roped into this enforcement scheme in an attempt to block the flow of funds to sites that supposedly facilitate copyright infringement.

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Despite holding comfortable majorities in both houses, her block in Congress had to establish a costly scheme of payments for small farmers to win a close vote in the lower house.

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The electricians belonging to the Unite union attempted, as they do every week to, block the construction site there over the employers exit from a national pay scheme.

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