81.   In stories and in business, it rides high whenever the state does.

82.   Instead, they say, New York should pay for legal aid programs through court filing fees, as New Jersey and several other states do.

83.   It is the least that a state could do.

84.   It is not clear whether New York state, which has long had the most generous and expansive poverty programs in the nation, will do the same.

85.   It would also be required to rewrite regulations to insure nondiscrimination, as a few states have already done.

86.   Just how well the state is doing depends to a large extent on location.

87.   Last year, the families went back to Superior Court to argue that the state had not done enough to remedy this segregation.

88.   Lawyers for the state say Hammer cannot impose an order because the state has done nothing to violate the Constitution.

89.   Let the states do it.

90.   Like New York, most other states already do anonymous HIV testing of newborns to track the spread of AIDS.