Word: self
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Geyser University Professor William Julius Wilson, the moderator of the forum, said that his studies of the problems of separated fathers in Chicago show that poor unwed fathers without work often lose self esteem, leading them to rationalize that they do not have a responsibility to provide for their children...
...Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) prevents the use of genetic information in issue of group health insurance policies, nothing in HIPAA prevents the company from using such information to increase a group's rate and price people out of coverage; furthermore, HIPAA is powerless in the individual and self-insured insurance markets...
...When Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony were born, women had less rights than a lunatic--that is, a male lunatic--in an asylum," Burns said. "By the time that they died, most of these--what we consider self-evident--rights had been at least partly achieved...
Other film segments investigated the relationship between Anthony and Stanton and documented Stanton's emotional final speech, "The Solitude of Self," which Burns said is on a literary par with Emerson's "Self-Reliance...
Changing the poverty line also threatens to have an effect on America?s self-image: A family making $18,000 this year could be pushed under the line if a higher threshold is established. This means millions more families suddenly become "poor," and, as a result, the country?s widely accepted affluence and the shrinking of its poor population are called into question. The future of the Census Bureau?s investigation may depend primarily on semantics. "The Census Bureau is asking ?What is poor today??" says TIME senior writer Adam Cohen. "This is a qualitative shift; we live...