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Although some social conservatives believe that policy makers should ignore poor people over 18—based on the belief that adults are to blame for their own misery??we can all agree that the 12 million children living in poverty bear no responsibility for their plight. But these children, like their parents, lack the means to obtain the most basic of food, clothing and housing. The official poverty level for a family of four, only $18,392, amounts to far less than it costs in most parts of the country to maintain a basic standard of living...

Author: By Nicholas F.B. Smyth, | Title: PROGRESSIVE TAXATION: Caring For Our Children, Sustaining Our Growth | 10/6/2003 | See Source »

...makes any more speeches about regime change in Iraq, he ought to review the facts—including his previous assurances about Hussein’s willingness to deploy or transfer weapons of mass destruction and his own administration’s culpability in the ongoing “misery?? of the Iraqi people. But given the former president’s tendency toward selective memory and self-reverence, don’t count...

Author: By Duncan M. Currie, | Title: Our Forgetful Ex-President | 10/10/2002 | See Source »

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