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...pantries reported increases; all three passed welfare-reform laws during the past two years. But the decline in middle-income jobs may be culpable as well. The Bureau of Labor Statistics shows some of the largest gains in job growth among the lowest-paying categories. Poquoson, Va., resident Tim Strickland, 39, makes $25,000 a year. But last year he hurt his back and temporarily left his job as a water-treatment-plant operator. "I was living penny by penny," he says. Friends at a food pantry learned of his plight and sent groceries. Aledia Johnson of Newport News...
...former L.S.U. defensive lineman who competed in the 1974 Orange Bowl, Strickland is playing in a new arena: national politics. He differs sharply with Wayne Allard's antiabortion views and, though he agrees with Allard on a balanced-budget amendment, Strickland doesn't think a simultaneous tax cut is possible without sacrificing vital social programs...
BORN: Aug. 6, 1956, Lumberton EDUCATION: U of North Carolina, B.A., 1978, J.D., 1981 FAMILY: Wife, Dee Strickland; two children RELIGION: Presbyterian MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Lawyer POLITICAL CAREER: None ADDRESS: 109 North Court Square, P.O. Box 1, Lumberton...
...STRICKLAND (D) District...
After three unsuccessful runs at the House, Strickland finally won in 1992--only to be unseated by Frank Cremeans in 1994. An unabashed liberal, Strickland advocates more spending on highways, education and programs for preventing drug and alcohol abuse, school dropouts and teenage pregnancy. Because his Sixth District is both working-class and poor, he may benefit by this year's apparent anti-Republican mood...