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Since 1960 the illegitimacy rate has skyrocketed from five percent to more than 25 percent. In many poor urban areas the percentage is well over 50 percent and growing. A welfare system that does not address the growing problem of illegitimacy is bound to fail. Yet the current system not...
In other ways too the Republicans are trying to shake their image as tribunes of the privileged, which is why the issue of welfare reform is heading toward resolution in the midst of the civil war over the budget. Republicans in the Senate are, as expected, cushioning the blows to...
Amid scattered flurries of harsh rhetoric and pre-campaign posturing, the Senate spent the week hammering out the details of a sweeping overhaul of the nation's welfare system and stood poised to pass the bill this coming week. The historic measure would convert existing entitlement programs into capped block...
Tumulty says Senate Democrats were able to win important concessions, notably a requirement that states actually spend at least 80 percent of the plan's welfare block grants on welfare. "Everyone was aiming for a bill the President can sign," Tumulty says. "The public is demanding action, and both sides...
Powell: Welfare has not served its intent and purpose over the years. As I listen to the debate, for example, over unwed mothers, I go past that to the child. I realize there is a need to make sure that the government is not in some way encouraging people to...