Word: creationism
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Racial redistricting and the creation of majority-Black Congressional districts actually hurt the Blacks that it is supposed to help, by increasing the number of Republicans elected to Congress and thus decreasing Blacks' influence on the political process. The Court's ruling will have the unusual effect of helping those who are now complaining bitterly about the decision. Blacks over-whelmingly identify with the Democratic party, and the increasing number of Republicans in Congress hurts Blacks' chances to implement their policy goals...
Between 1969 and 1969 and 1973, the number of Blacks in Congress increased from 10 to 17 after the creation of majority-Black districts following the 1970 census. In the first election following redistricting as a result of the 1980 census, the number of Black representatives in Congress increased from 17 in 1981 to 20 in 1983. There are now 40 Blacks in Congress--39 in the House, including Eleanor Holmes Norton, a nonvoting member representing the District of Columbia, and one senatior, Carol Moseley-Braun, a Democrat from Illinois. All but one of these Black representatives are Democrats...
...lifted the payroll tax, it would become clear that Social Security is a form of intergenerational welfare.'' Instead, the earned income tax credit was supposed to provide relief. In 1986, when Ronald Reagan expanded the EITC, he called it "the best antipoverty, the best profamily, the best job-creation measure to come out of Congress." But now the Republican budget cutters have EITC in their sights...
...academic atmosphere, especially Harvard's brand of this-university-is-older-than-Creation atmosphere, suggests uniformity and tradition. And according to Bainbridge Bunting's Harvard: An Architectural History, Harvard's buildings remained conservative for many years...
...term as chairman. Greenspan might like that. Enough to soften his reluctance to reduce rates? If not, there are others on the Fed who are less reluctant. "I don't think there is going to be a recession,'' says vice chairman Alan Blinder, a Clinton nominee who thinks job creation is as important a mandate as Greenspan's focus on inflation fighting. "But I am worried about...