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...welfare reform. Virginia, Michigan and Wisconsin food pantries reported increases; all three passed welfare-reform laws during the past two years. But the decline in middle-income jobs may be culpable as well. The Bureau of Labor Statistics shows some of the largest gains in job growth among the lowest-paying categories. Poquoson, Va., resident Tim Strickland, 39, makes $25,000 a year. But last year he hurt his back and temporarily left his job as a water-treatment-plant operator. "I was living penny by penny," he says. Friends at a food pantry learned of his plight and sent...
...offenders to the juvenile system. What isn't clear is whether moving young criminals back to adult courts has much impact on crime. According to a recent study by the liberal National Center for Initiatives and Alternatives, Connecticut has the highest juvenile-to-adult transfer rate and Colorado the lowest, yet their youth-crime rates are the same. Since the 1970s, New York has been automatically trying as adults kids 16 and older charged with serious crimes. In the same period, its juvenile crime rates doubled...
...knows the answer to that. The lowest estimate comes from the Administration, which figures that the cost of the first three new members will be about $35 billion over 13 years, with the U.S. share amounting to $200 million a year. Of course, if other new members are admitted during those years--as the U.S. assumes--the price will go up. At the same time, the Congressional Budget Office puts the cost at some $61 billion, and the Rand Corp. says $42 billion. Whatever the real cost, it is high enough to have caused U.S. weapons makers to join...
...lowest percentage of women among Harvard's nine schools. Fadule said women have historically comprised about 29 percent of the school. Last year's low number was only a "blip," she said...
Austin, a specialty-paper salesman from Chicago, wants to stay married to the perceptive and unusually attractive Barbara while vigorously pursuing a dour and uncompliant Parisian named Josephine. Furious, Barbara refers to her straying mate as what could euphemistically be called the lowest part of the digestive system. Josephine calls her suitor a damned fool after he takes her young son to a park without permission. Unattended, little Leo wanders off and is stripped by older boys. Austin's humiliation is compounded by newspaper accounts alleging that he might be a child molester...