... households receiving these benefits after termination dropped precipitously. Moreover, in Iowa, the only state where efforts were made to follow up on all families whose benefits were terminated, fewer than half of the families could even be located. THE passage of the Personal Responsibility Act has thus set the stage for a further tarnishing of America's record on equal opportunity that even ... leaders Finland and Sweden. Also, careful cross-country comparisons reported by UNICEF show that, even before the passage of the act, the US had by far the weakest children's safety net of any...

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... stability to take advantage of it. Over the past 10 or 15 years the two giants, China and India, and other Asian and Latin American countries adding up to almost half the world's population have seen very high export-driven growth rates, averaging over twice the rate in the old industrialized world. There are gross inequalities of income in all of ... own candidates in the Cochabamba area. In Colombia, the peasant-based guerrilla army, the Popular Army of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, has extended its influence to close to half the rural municipalities in the country. Whil...

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... their counterparts in the US. The drift will transform the global economy in next couple of decades, Asia is one of the major contributor as it is home to nearly half of the world's population. (Forbes) Turkey was one of the many countries who experienced hyperinflation and currency collapse, Turkey's middle class have tended to hold at least part of their ... ...

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