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Good news standing out amid the doom and gloom
Jim Geraghty of National Review Online highlights once huge problems that appear to have been resolved. They are big and consequential, and strike me as a better record for incumbent…
Teenage pregnancy
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Teen motherhood down, but the news is not all good
Charles Fain Lehman of the Washington Free Beacon probes the latest data linked to teen motherhood. The teen birth rate has been cut in half since 2008, but the causes…
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Old Maid Complex Flaring Up
Why don’t we teach kids math instead of how to get pregnant? In 2012 Swain reported 30 teen pregnancies among 15- to 19-year-olds, down from 33 in 2011. The rate…
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SOS
Haywood County Schools’ social workers have identified about 240 students who are considered homeless, and they expect that number will reach 300 by the end of the year. The number…
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Teen unemployment and teen pregnancy
Teens can’t get jobs because older workers are crowding them out and teen pregnancies started to rise in 2006. This seems a bit more direct correlation than the desire to…
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Report: one in five females will become teen mothers in N.C.
Over one in five females will become teen mothers in North Carolina, according to a research brief by the nonprofit Child Trends. N.C.’s projected rate is 22 percent, 4 percent…
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Pity These Children
Here’s a headline with ominous implications for the kids, not to mention the moms. The story is just as bleak. Gang girlfriends more likely moms
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Classical Social Programming
It has been said that if government declared a war on pregnancy, men would start having babies. Swain County continues to fight its high teen pregnancy rate with programming. Last…
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Smells Like Government
I’m interested in what was actually said. According to the news story, the Swain County Board of Education is going to be combating teen pregnancy through a survey of sexual…
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Ten years of welfare reform
Newsweek columnist Robert J. Samuelson examines the history of the Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996. I found this observation especially interesting: One lesson is that what people do for…
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Re: Soda Wars
“They’re going to get the drinks elsewhere,” Millberg said. “I don’t think kids are getting fat in school. They’re getting fat at home eating three bags of chips.” This logic…
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Re: School pregnancy crisis
Amen, Terry.