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Bush Administration on Roll Against Living in Sin

By AAN Staff
may 1, 2002  11:17 am
Bush Administration on Roll Against Living in Sin
With President Bush's proposed marriage initiative, Uncle Sam turns matchmaker. But does government-sponsored marriage support actually work? Chisun Lee reports in The Village Voice on the politics behind the programs, and Sharon Lerner shows how they fall short of reducing poverty. Plus: profiles of five unmarried women -- potential "targets." The plan is the brainchild of the Heritage Foundation's Robert Rector, "who derides 'the underclass' as criminal, oversexed, and lazy, makes a feint at remedying such 'dysfunctional behavior,'" Lee writes.
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