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...starkly does it clash with the town of today. Up until 1945 or so, this city was a monument to the gusto and grit of a nation laboring to create itself. Camden built everything from battleships to toilet seats, and people here claim you could find more industry per capita in these nine square miles than anywhere else in the world. This was the home of the Victor talking machine, Campbell's soup and the Esterbrook pen. In the cavernous shipyards, 35,000 men once toiled, hammering out eight vessels at a time. Bard of it all was Walt Whitman...
...based health clinics (where condoms are distributed, much to the outrage of the religious right). While other governors have taken rich states and made them poor, Clinton has taken a poor state and made it a bit richer, without crowing about an "Arkansas Miracle." Over the past decade, per capita income grew 61%. Even so, terrible poverty remains entrenched in Arkansas: the state's incomes are still about 25% below the national average...
Despite the fact that the nation's per capita alcohol consumption has been on a decline for years, drinking among minors, in the words of Surgeon General Antonia Novello, "is out of control." More specifically, "unsupervised parties where kids drink are out of control. And the perception among parents that drinking is O.K. is out of control. We're going to lose a whole generation if we don't pay attention...
...while blaming someone else. But it's worse than that. If we look at Social Security, which is another form of welfare, although it is often mistaken for an individual insurance program, then whites are the ones who are crowding the trough. We receive almost twice as much per capita, for an aggregate advantage to our race of $10 billion a year -- much more than the $3.9 billion advantage African Americans gain from their disproportionate share of welfare. One sad reason: whites live an average of six years longer than African Americans, meaning that young black workers help subsidize...
...took at the sales figures is a quick per capita sales analysis: on average, every single person in America spent almost $10 at the Gap last year, or, what is more likely, 10 percent of Americans spent about $80 each...