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It's not working. (Letters).


I was dismayed to see you publish an unsubstantiated and highly misleading claim that welfare "reform" is not harming children ("Working Out: Welfare reform hasn't has·n't  

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 changed kids so far," SN: 3/8/03, p. 149). The study dealt with the atypical atypical /atyp·i·cal/ (-i-k'l) irregular; not conformable to the type; in microbiology, applied specifically to strains of unusual type.

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 welfare mothers able to find sustainable employment. For them, I don't doubt that having enough money rather than too little would be an improvement. Unmentioned are the many unskilled people arbitrarily deprived of aid and forced into a desolate job market. Many social workers for private charities can bear witness to the emotional condition of children coming from this kind of ordeal ordeal, ancient legal custom whereby an accused person was required to perform a test, the outcome of which decided the person's guilt or innocence. By an ordeal, appeal was made to divine authority to decide the guilt or innocence of one accused of a crime or to .

FORREST CURO CURO Center for Undergraduate Research Opportunities , WALLINGFORD, PA.
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Author:Curo, Forrest
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Date:May 3, 2003
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