Word: barreled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...years of Head Start for those most in need but also award schoolchildren in the lower grades a larger chunk of the $6 billion annually authorized under Chapter 1, the nation's primary source of federal funds for education. Those dollars are currently spread thinly in a pork-barrel scheme that reaches 90% of all congressional districts -- the price for the political support required to keep Chapter 1 alive. "Unless you conceive of Head Start and Chapter 1 together and target the money at the most disadvantaged," says Zigler, "we'll never have the good effects we know...
Comic: Boy, you're a real barrel of laughs. Got any other good news...
...PORK-BARREL SPENDING...
First, it makes little sense that pork barrel projects like Red Top lead to better performance. Second, no matter how many goodies the big teams get, the smaller teams should be guaranteed some basics. If Harvard is going to have a men's water polo team, for example, it should ensure that the team doesn't have to spend too much time raising its own funds. And regardless of the cost efficiency, all players who win NCAA titles deserve just as much respect and just as many rewards...
...home state of West Virginia with federal office buildings and roads. Reich holds that "there is nothing wrong with being indebted so long as the borrowings are invested in means of enhancing our future wealth." But he agrees that some way must be found to "guard against pork-barrel spending...