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...general public and even into junior high school classrooms. Though his proposal for early education has met with resistance from religious and conservative groups, Koop is insistent. While pushing his program before a gathering of religious broadcasters in Washington, D.C., last week, he declared, "This is not an age for the faint of heart or of soul...
...parties; a task force appointed by New York Governor Mario Cuomo; and a working group of the White House Domestic Policy Council. The National Governors' Association has scheduled a vote Feb. 24 on a welfare reform plan, featuring work, training or study obligations for recipients, including mothers of children age 3 or more; approval is expected. In his budget message last week, Republican Governor Thomas Kean of New Jersey proposed a plan that would require all able-bodied welfare recipients, except mothers of children age 2 or younger, to take jobs, return to school or enroll in training programs...
Controversy still rages around many details of a welfare-reform program. Should work be required only from mothers of school-age children (roughly age 6 or older) or from parents of youngsters as young as 3? What should be done about mothers who continue to have babies and thus avoid the work requirements? What should be done about welfare parents who refuse to work or drop out of training programs; if their benefits are cut off, would that not amount to punishing the children for the sins of the parent? And will jobs be available in an economy where...
Some experts believe the economic climate is about to turn propitious for welfare reform. The competition for jobs that resulted when the baby-boom generation reached working age is becoming a thing of the past. In the 1990s fewer people -- those born during the baby bust, the period of low birth rates that began in 1965 -- will be looking for jobs. Says the Domestic Policy Council: "The baby bust will make it easier to lift America's welfare recipients up from dependency. Plenty of jobs will be available in the private economy, and at wage rates that will provide...
Between these two dramatic points, Burgess strings a panorama of impressions, both personal and pertinent to his age. John Burgess Wilson (his pseudonym came later) grew up Roman Catholic in a Protestant country, "more of a Celt than an Anglo-Saxon." He was neither the first nor the last Englishman to feel estranged from his native land while learning to love its language and literature, but his generation was cut off from the past by the arrival of radio, the cinema, "American world hegemony, the dissolution of Christendom." When he begins losing his Catholic faith, the author confers with...