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...William F. Weld '66, Sens. Robert J. Dole (R-Kans.), Daniel P. Moynihan (D-N.Y.), Edward M. Kennedy '54-'56 (D-Mass.), John D. Rockefeller '58 (D-W.Va.) and 16 other members of the House and Senate wrote letters of recommendation for the Kroks, who contacted the Massachusetts Congressional delegation and their local U.S. representatives...
Certainly the lingering influence and acceptance of the tenets of the Moynihan Report have helped to solidify this perception. Thus, what better racial group to appropriate in order to validate a new-found "concern" for "social deviants" than African-Americans...
...necessary to get recipients back into the work force are costly, but Congress provided only a billion dollars a year over a five-year period, which works out to just $250 annually per adult AFDC recipient. Challenging the Bush Administration "to put up or, please, to shut up," Senator Moynihan last month introduced a bill to increase federal funding to $5 billion a year -- a nonstarter in the current fiscal climate. Meanwhile, many financially strapped states have been backing out of the deal, preferring to forfeit their share of federal matching grants rather than fully fund the programs. A report...
...maintenance work. One expert likens it to not reimbursing drivers for the cost of changing oil in their cars while paying 90% of the price of a valve job. "The attitude was the faster it crumbles, the faster we'll get brand-new," says New York Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, a stalwart highway watcher. Moreover, maintenance is unglamorous. "Nobody ever had a ribbon-cutting ceremony for fixing cracks," notes Moynihan...
Rivers, for one, criticized Jones for his useof quotations and facts. "I have read all theliterature that is from '64'-65," he said, citingthe Moynihan report as an example. "And that's whyI'm so surprised at your exploitation of thisyoung audience...