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Sociologist Christopher Jencks argues correctly that "American liberals have a habit of trying to help the neediest. Because AFDC benefits have always been low, welfare mothers look like the neediest of the needy. As a result, liberals have fought hard to help welfare recipients, while largely ignoring single mothers with low wage jobs. Welfare recipients have always gotten Medicaid for example while equally impoverished working mothers seldom have...
...Dartboard article was all too prescient. Cutting the interest subsidy on the Stafford loans would raise students' payments for their undergraduate education by up to 19.4 percent in total. The neediest students would be charged proportionately, and thus hurt the most. At the loan maximum of $17,125, students would have to squeeze out an additional $3,320 in payments...
Despite the cries of the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP), Social Security needs a huge overhaul. Rather than trying to provide for the entire younger generation, it needs to set its sights on the neediest cases. Otherwise, the Social Security fund will be bankrupt before this generation gets to collect. People in the work force will more than make up their Social Security with private savings--an asset on which the government can't default...
Whether you are giving full scholarships or just free sweatshirts, if the policy is different for Blacks than for whites, then whites have an excuse to cry foul and Blacks, like myself, remain changed by our own self-doubt. To target the neediest qualified Black students, the school should write a set of guidlines which specifies the profile of students who deserve special treatment...
...city councillors said yesterday that perhaps the survey's most significant finding was that Cambridge's neediest residents have insufficient knowledge of the city services available to them. "In some cases the perception of the residents conflicts with reality," said Councillor Francis H. Duehay. "The question is how to organize the information for them...