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Tuesday, May 29th, 2012

Posts Tagged families

Gohmert: Let’s Give Welfare Recipients Land for Subsistence Farming

By | 09.29.10 | 2:01 pm

Yesterday, speaking on the House floor, Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) suggested an offensive, if creative, form of welfare reform. Via Media Matters’ Political Correction, the Congressman argued:

Hard Times Keep Families Together – But Only for a While

By | 05.29.09 | 8:48 am

One potentially upbeat aspect of a recession is that it keeps families together, writes marriage expert Andrew Cherlin today in The New York Times. Couples are reluctant to split up when finances are tight, so households that might otherwise break up remain intact. That was one lesson of More…