21.   A state Medicaid program receives tens of thousands of electronic claims from health care providers each year.

22.   A state program in Vermont, for instance, takes in broken electronic appliances like VCRs, trains people to fix them, then sells them.

23.   A state program mandates testing of all newborns for the virus, HIV.

24.   A Philadelphia woman explains about how the state program helped her.

25.   A system that moved from federal control to a patchwork of state programs has, until now, been shielded by prosperity and low unemployment.

26.   A two-year-old state program to lower the property taxes charged by local school districts also skews the results.

27.   A state program, Family Support Services, sends therapists to the homes of autistic people to teach them how to speak and deal with other people.

28.   A system that moved from federal control to a patchwork of state programs has, until now, been shielded by prosperity.

29.   According to a newly released survey, Maricopa County residents overwhelmingly favor a ban on racial and gender preferences in state programs in Arizona.

30.   Adding to the pressure will be interest groups that will lobby hard in an attempt to avoid reductions in state programs they favor.