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Even so, welfare's flaws are under scrutiny. For a fraction of recipients, the checks create a culture of dependency in which children grow up without ever seeing members of their family go to work. Also, because half of all children on welfare were born out of wedlock, compared with just 10% for American children generally, critics accuse the system of creating financial incentives for single motherhood. Add to those sentiments an enduring voter discontent over taxes and pressure on the President to keep up his image as "new Democrat." All have combined to make welfare reform a White House...
...sponsors also said they discussed with Strauss the possibility of making all source books "term-bill-able," instead of the fraction presently available by that mode of payment...
...federal budget, a whopping $738 billion. The largest chunk is Social Security ($319 billion), but entitlements also include Medicare, Medicaid, veterans' benefits, government pensions, unemployment insurance and farm subsidies. Only one-sixth of this money goes to Americans below the poverty line. A significant fraction of government benefit checks are cashed by the comfortably middle class. The Progressive Policy Institute estimates that families with taxable incomes above $50,000 receive 19% of federal entitlement money...
...space station, and vice versa. Supporters of manned space shots note that the Hubble could never have been repaired without human hands; opponents argue that without NASA's insistence that the telescope be launched by shuttle, the instrument could have gone up in the late 1970s, at a fraction of its eventual cost and into a higher, more useful orbit to boot...
...Only a fraction of a percentage of students go with New England Telephone, and most students who change make a high volume of calls," Wise says...