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The United States Senate soon will consider legislation that would repeal key provisions of the 54-year-old Hatch Act, a law prohibiting federal employees from engag- ing in electioneering and related partisan political activities.

Expect critics of the Bush administration to seize on the U.S. Census Bureau's annual report on poverty.

The lack of clarity and cultural consensus about the decline ofAmerican marriage is dangerous. Erasing the bond between marriageand child rearing leads to a weakening of our country's ability tocarry out its promise: its promise of fairness, equality,opportunity, and prosperity. Instead, the result is separate andunequal families as far as the eye can see.

Proving that they were the real experts on poverty and how to alleviate it.

Do you know what your children are learning in sex-education classes?

Exposing the truth about America's "poor" and poverty.

Bush has endorsed abstinence education as an effective means ofreducing early sexual activity, providing a foundation for personalresponsibility, and enduring marital commitment. Washington isaware of the undesirable contents of "safe sex" education programsand the findings in the professional literature concerning theeffectiveness of genuine abstinence programs.

The United States is importing generations of poverty as the children of immigrants now account for 4-in-9 of all poor children in the nation.

Both legal immigrants and undocumented parents face hurdles in getting aid. The problem has grown more acute as children of immigrants account for a growing share of young people.

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