Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After a study, the Department of Social Services promulgated new rules laying out a system of priorities for placing foster children that gave lowest priority to gay individuals who lacked experience as parents. The system gave first priority to married traditional couples with children...
...artistry of War and Peace and Anna Karenina translates into many languages, but Leo Tolstoy the social phenomenon is strictly Russian. Most biographers take this fact for granted. A.N. Wilson spells it out in his descriptions of that vast, isolated kingdom of the 19th century in which the roles of writer and prophet were frequently indistinguishable. Martine de Courcel strikes a deeper Slavic chord when she says that Tolstoy's aim was to become a Fool of God. Count Leo was, of course, no fool, although many of his truths never got off the ground. His moralizing often seems...
...power in cities and state legislatures. Job opportunities have opened, and the once violent outcry against school desegregation has been muted. But the more intimate, elemental question of whether blacks can live beside whites has remained volatile, pitting neighbors against neighbors, the courts against communities, and a sense of social fairness against the besieged mentality of those who fear change...
...heart of the welfare dilemma, according to Ellwood, is that the system attempts to place a dollar value on complex social and economic factors. As he emphasizes again and again, you can't throw money at a problem and expect it to go away...
These policy proposals, which form the core of Poor Support, are rounded out by analytical discussions of the causes of poverty, both social and economic, and with some historical overview of the reasons for the current welfare morass...