[Bookshelf]

Since 1970, out-of-wedlock birth rates have soared. In 1965, 24 percent of black infants and 3.1 percent of white infants were born to single mothers. By 1990 the rates had risen to 64 percent for black infants, 18 percent for whites. Every year about one million more children are born into fatherless families. If we have learned any policy lesson well over the past 25 years, it is that for children living in single-parent homes, the odds of living in poverty are great.

[PeteyBoy]

Dan Quale was right.

[Elsie]

Since 1970, out-of-wedlock birth rates have soared.

What should we expect?

We subsidize the hell out of them!

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List of Grants for Single Mothers #

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1. Federal Pell Grant
2. Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant
3. Federal Work-Study Grant
4. Federal Student Loan
5. Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF)
6. Diversion Cash Assistance (DCA)
7. Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)
8. Women, Infants and Children Program (WIC)
9. Child Care Assistance Program (CCAP)
10. Child Care Access Means Parents in School Program (CCAMPIS)
11. Head Start / Early Head Start
12. Medicaid
13. Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP)

14. Section 8 Rental Subsidy
15. Public Housing Program
16. Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP)
17. Weatherization Assistance Program (WAP)
18. Supplemental Security Income
19. Title X: The National Family Planning Program
20. National School Lunch Program (NSLP)
21. The Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP)
22. Local Food Banks
23. Lifeline Program
24. Unemployment Insurance
25. Paid Family Leave
26. Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC)
27. Grants for American Indians and Alaska Natives

[nascarnation]

Lyndon Johnson’s “Great Society” was a huge success (for Democrats).