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AT a time of unprecedented budget crises, it is unthinkable that we should roll back welfare reform -- yet that's what's happening. In New York and other states, and on the federal level, lawmakers are broadening eligibility, eliminating work requirements and raising cash pay-outs. The drive is to substitute all sorts of social and educational services for work requirements -- despite overwhelming evidence that such assistance doesn't lead to employment. As a nation, we'll come to regret these decisions, because welfare reform has worked -- and worked well. It must be preserved.

"Gay" Groups Join SIECUS, Planned Parenthood To Attack Abstinence Funding by Linda P. Harvey A campaign opposing federal funding for abstinence-only sex education programs is being organized by a coalition of pro-abortion groups joined by advocates of homosexuality. Advocates for Youth (AFY), a radical group promoting "gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender" practices for teens and children, held a December conference in Washington to kick off a campaign to undermine federal abstinence funds provided under Title V of the Welfare Reform Act. The $50 million in annual funding, first provided in 1996, is matched with three state dollars for every four...