Word: poorest
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...Americans may be fine parents individually, but we routinely countenance spending cuts for the 25% of American children who are in poverty and hence "at risk"--with the result, according to Mike Males' recent book, The Scapegoat Generation, that the U.S. now harbors both the wealthiest adults and the poorest children of any Western nation...
...come from the second-poorest reservation in the country," Proctor says. "There is no work, and you have to travel 15 miles to buy a coke. This is my reality. I want to know how to get the highway widened, how to get quality doctors and how to attract the business community. The problems are so multi-faceted...
...Blossoms born of spring, let's go see, let's go see") as dignitaries planted 10 Japanese maples to symbolize Toyota's new U.S. roots. For Senator Jay Rockefeller, landing Toyota marked the capstone of a 20-year crusade to boost the economy of one of the country's poorest states. Thanks to Toyota, Rockefeller says, Buffalo (pop. 969) is "going to become a player in the global marketplace...
...live up to his promise to "end welfare as we know it." The many flaws of this bill are beyond the scope of this editorial, but it is clear that welfare as we know it has been ended--the New Deal promise of federal aid to America's poorest citizens has been terminated...
Bennett has enough book contracts and lecture requests to keep him rich and busy through the turn of the century. He helps with the "Best Friends" program, co-founded by his wife, which encourages sexual abstinence among girls in the poorest neighborhoods of Washington and 12 other cities, and has sharply increased their graduation rates. The Bennetts and their two young sons spend summers and weekends on the Outer Banks of North Carolina at what Bill has dubbed "the beach house that virtue built." And he pursues his goal of walking up America's "fourteeners," its 55 mountains above...