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What to do? Most everyone, it seems, has the same answer: cut off payments to mothers who have additional kids while on welfare. "There's no question," the President said in 1993, that reducing welfare benefits "would be some incentive for people not to have dependent children out of wedlock...
...with white women in their 20's accounting for much of the increase, says a new study by the National Center for Health Statistics. Unmarried teens, who in 1973 accounted for over fifty percent of all illegitimate births, bore fewer than a third of the 1.2 million out of wedlock babies in 1992. However, the new single mothers aren't real-life counterparts to Murphy Brown. The majority are low-income women who are likely to remain stuck at lower economic levels...
...Wedlock agreed. "This school allows many people to [attend college] who otherwise couldn't afford it," he said...
...Wedlock said that Lowell School only accounts for $100,000 out of MIT's annual budget of $1.4 billion. He added that most of the $100,000 is actually returned to the university as tuition from Lowell students...
According to Wedlock, the true cost of funding the community school is almost nothing...