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BG1050:  Making Government Work: How Congress Can ReallyReinvent Government

"Porn is just another form of entertainment now." The speaker, an 18-year-old concession-stand worker named Ben Meredith, was explaining to a Los Angeles Times

Efforts to reduce child poverty should focus on increasing parental work and marriage.

According to the U.S. Conference of Mayors, food-bank use in major cities has increased at an average rate of 16 percent per year for the past decade and a half and roughly doubles every four years.

The lack of progress in reducing child poverty since 1965 can be explained in part by the erosion of marriage and the growth of poverty-prone single-parent families.

Child poverty is a continuing American problem. This report examines the causes of child poverty and the factors that contribute to racial differences in child poverty.

(Archived document, may contain errors) zoo August 1, 1994 HOW CLINTONS BILL EXTENDS WEZiFm AS WE KNOW IT INTRODUCTION Americans are alarmed by the growth and effects of welfare. They correctly per ceive the current system to be an extraordinarily expensive debacle which destroys the lives of those it is intended to help. And by promoting illegitimacy and undennin ing the family, they see welfare as threatening the foundation of society.

BG944:  How States Can Fight Violent Crime: Two Dozen Steps toa Safer America

By now practically everyone in the Midwest and Northeast has seen the TV ads. A series of heart-rending scenes show low-income American families gratefully receiving discounted home heating oil as a gift "from Citgo and the people of Venezuela." The gift-giving intermediary? Former Rep. Joseph P. Kennedy II, founding chairman of Citizens Energy Corp.

Analysis shows that viginity pledgers have lower STD rates thannon-pledgers.