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...have choices.” The latter statement links to a manual describing how to legally force the biological father into fulfilling his child support duties, and how to utilize financial assistance programs such as Medicaid and subsidized housing. These proposed solutions fail to seriously address the root economic and social reasons that lead women to seek abortions. Advising an impoverished teenage mothers to procure food stamps merely places a Band-Aid on a gaping wound...
Tell me about your thoughts on the "cavalier" attitude at the root of this problem...
...Haider joined the nationalist Freedom Party in 1976, and rose to become its leader in just ten years, ending the party's brief flirtation with liberal ideas and strengthening its nationalist roots. Political analysts praised his oratorical skills and manifest charisma as well as his talent for reducing complicated political and economic problems to easily recognized root causes. He espoused anti-immigrant positions and attempted (unsuccessfully) to prevent Austria from joining the European Union in the 1990s. In a country reluctant to acknowledge its role in Nazi atrocities carried out during the Second World War, he also repeatedly hinted that...
...think anyone is without prejudice of some kind. But for many, I would say, this is more in the nature of stereotypes we hold or assumptions we make that are not based on knowledge or experience. For a long time, I've wanted to get to the root of this issue. In our special report on race and in our annual America by the Numbers franchise, we look at the role race is playing. No one can say for certain what is in people's hearts. But what we found is a very American answer: people are pragmatic and seem...
...root of the troubles are the "toxic assets" - the highly leveraged securities mainly linked to U.S. mortgages - that banks around the world still have on their books. In its latest estimate this month, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) calculated that losses on these now virtually worthless securities could amount to $1.4 trillion. So far, banks have written off less than half that. Concern about who is still holding dud paper has gummed up credit markets, with banks refusing to lend to one another for fear that the borrowers may default or may have themselves lent to other banks that could...