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Are Social Programs and Policies Supporting the Need of Single-Parent Families
The growth in the number of children that live in single parent homes has instigated the need for policies and programs to improve the status of single-parent families. Single parents confront tensions that arise from their dual responsibility of raising their children while simultaneously earning a living. The correlation between single parenting and poverty is clear. Furthermore, single parents are more likely to face social isolation due to stigmatization. Many single parents also experience feelings of stress, frustration, incompetence, hopelessness and helplessness
The poverty level of children living in single parent homes is significantly greater than that of children living in two-parent homes, and continues to increase. Furthermore, children living with a parent younger than twenty-five years old are even more likely to live in poverty and be dependent on social support. Whether single motherhood is the result of family separation or unwed parenthood, it often results in considerable economic hardship for the mother and her children. Read the rest of this entry »
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Are Conservatives More Charitable Then Liberals
A recent study by Catologue for Philanthropy would lead a rational person to conclude that conservatives are more philanthropic then their liberal counterparts.
The Catalogue For Philanthropy conducted a study of the fifty states in the union and looked in to the charitable giving patterns of the residents of those states.
The Catalogue For Philanthropy used a generosity index that looked at the money earned vs. money donated to charities. It is based on income tax returns for 2005.
The top 25 states in the union were GOP states while the bottom nine states were Democratic states. This confirms my belief that conservatives are more charitable then their liberal counterparts. Read the rest of this entry »
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A New Approach to Media Bias
Surprisingly, the shrill accusation of liberal bias in the media has not been too present on the scene this election cycle. There has been a lot of talk about bias against certain candidates (Hillary Clinton, John Edwards) and towards others (McCain and Obama), but the discussion has by and large stayed away from the divisive claim that all mainstream media is in the hands of the “liberal cultural elite.” In fact, the frothy-mouthed fury that hard right media figures are showing towards John McCain is even making some of these stalwarts toss their support to the democrats; the media that they work so hard to label “liberal” is paradoxically broadcasting more liberal endorsements as a result of their irrational vitriol.
Regardless of the recent silence, however, this lion of an argument is sleeping and will certainly awake the closer we get to November. It’s really a complex topic and I don’t claim to be able to defang it here, but I want to preemptively put a thought about this eternal topic out there before a passing gazelle (or donkey, as the case may be) disturbs the lion’s sleep.
A couple weekends ago I had the privilege to spend an evening chatting with a radio journalist from North Carolina. It was the night of the South Carolina primary, and inevitably the talk turned to politics. The journalist made a couple of comments that I found very interesting: first, he said that liberals were having a hard time making their political talk entertaining and engaging; second, he said that liberal bias in the media is a well-known and indisputable fact. The proof for this claim: surveys show that journalists tend to overwhelming vote democratic on election day. Read the rest of this entry »
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