Sadly, food stamps have been stigmatized, and too many of the 2.2 million eligible New Yorkers don't take advantage of this federal entitlement.

Working from a one to three partisan divide, McDowell helped lead the first adoption of spending controls on a federal entitlement in a generation.

To most Democratic leaders, federal entitlements are their theology.

When Congress overhauled the nation's welfare system in 1996, it preserved food stamps as a federal entitlement for the poor and disabled.

Puerto Rico residents are also exempt from federal income tax but qualify for federal entitlements.

The federal entitlement of Native Americans to game on tribal lands does not implicate economic development policy and wealth distribution alone.

His publications cover also federal entitlements, demographics and chemistry.

Mr. Thomas will win little applause in the Republican caucus for embracing the proposition that what America needs is another federal entitlement.

"I cannot support the creation of a new federal entitlement in the form of a universal drug benefit in Medicare," Mr. Pence said.

For months, Gore vacillated between calling Bradley a liberal budget-buster and calling him a crypto-Reaganite menace to federal entitlements.