Word: unwedded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though the Baby Boomers have spurred the growth of the black middle class, there are as well an increasing number of unwed black mothers in the Baby Boom generation who must support their children on a pittance. "When you talk about two-parent families," says Frank Levy of the Urban...
Reality: divorce, broken homes, unwed teen mothers, and a government that cuts the access of teenagers to family-planning services.
Welfare has been a political battleground since federally financed public assistance was made law under the Social Security Act of 1935. Traditionally, conservatives have viewed welfare programs as handouts to the poor and an | insult to the American work ethic. Liberals generally have considered it compassionate compensation for victims of...
Workfare's philosophical opponents see it as a sort of punishment for being poor. They contend that the vast majority of welfare recipients are young unwed mothers with few if any marketable skills, who are often forced to take demeaning, low-paying jobs under workfare. Critics question whether there is...
Colm Wilkinson and Roger Allam carry the show as Jean Valjean, the released convict seeking to escape his past, and Javert, the righteous police inspector who hounds him across France for nearly two decades. Patti LuPone, an American who won a 1980 Tony Award for her starring role in Evita...