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Reforming Welfare Reform

Former Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D., N.Y.), apparently was in no mood to mince words that day in 1996 when he described the welfare-reform bill that had just been enacted by a Republican Congress...

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Sex Ed or Porn 101?

It's "Back To School" time again, and here's the first pop quiz. No, it's not for the kids. It's for parents, and they have to answer only one question: Do you know what your children are learning in...

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Poor Reasoning

Let the hyperventilating begin. Expect critics of the Bush administration to seize on the U.S. Census Bureau's annual report on poverty. Look, they'll say, poverty's up. They'll blame tax cuts. Or the...

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Good Money For Bad Advice

The dangers of early sexual activity are well documented. It leads to higher levels of child and maternal poverty, elevates the risk of sexually transmitted diseases, and often leaves teenage girls...

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The Return of The Ring

Marriage is a hot topic these days, especially in light of President Bush's call for a constitutional amendment to define the very concept. It's good to see attention focused on marriage, because this...

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Lifting Up The People

American Dream: Three Women, Ten Kids, and a Nation's Drive to End Welfare, by Jason DeParle (Viking, 422 pp., $25.95) Bill Clinton's promise to "end welfare as we know it" played a decisive role in...

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Aborting Abstinence

Each year, more than three million teenagers contract a sexually transmitted disease. In addition to the threat of disease and pregnancy, sexually active teens are three times more likely than teens...

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The Wrong Course

Congress is in the midst of the most dramatic overhaul of our nation’s immigration laws in 80 years. So why is hardly anyone is asking the basic question, How might this affect government costs? #ad#In...

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Amnesty Plus

The Senate is currently debating S. 1348, a so-called comprehensive immigration bill. The centerpiece of this legislation is the offer of amnesty, access to welfare, and ultimately citizenship to at...

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Look to Milton

A decade ago, Nobel prize-winning economist Milton Friedman admonished the Wall Street Journal for its idée fixe on open-border immigration policy. “It’s just obvious you can’t have free immigration...

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Poor Politics

The Census Bureau will release its annual report on poverty in America tomorrow. The report will show, as it has in recent years that around 37 million people live in official poverty. Presidential...

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Hunger Hysteria

This week, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) released its annual report on household food security in the United States. According to USDA, some 12.5 million households, or roughly 11 percent...

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Understanding Poverty in America

Today, the U.S. Census Bureau will release its annual poverty report. The report is expected to show an increase in poverty in 2008 due to the onset of the recession. It is no surprise that poverty...

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Teen Pregnancy: Bogus Problem, Bogus Solution

The Guttmacher Institute recently released a report raising alarm over a one-year increase in teen pregnancy. “Safe sex” experts quickly pinned the blame on abstinence education. This is a bit...

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Abstinence Education Effective; Comprehensive Sex Ed a Big Flop

A new study released today, shows that abstinence education is highly effective in reducing sexual activity among youth. It also showed “safe sex” and “comprehensive” sex ed programs to be ineffective....

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Killing Abstinence

This week, the media gave us what appeared to be startling news: Research, appearing in a journal published by the American Medical Association, showed (shock!) that abstinence programs dramatically...

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Abstinence and the Left

Alarmed by a recent well-publicized study showing that abstinence education succeeded while “safe sex” and “comprehensive” sex-ed programs failed, the Left has abandoned its “abstinence doesn’t work”...

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Obama's New 'Poverty' Measurement

This week, the Obama administration announced it will create a new poverty-measurement system that will eventually displace the current poverty measure. This new measure, which has little or nothing to...

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Losing the War

Today marks the 46th anniversary of the War on Poverty. On March 16, 1964, Pres. Lyndon Johnson announced a new government mobilization that he claimed would yield “total victory” against poverty in...

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Understanding Illegitimacy

The press has rushed to report a minuscule drop in “teen births” based on data released Tuesday by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). As usual, the mainstream media are focusing on a trivial,...

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