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CalvinballPro

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9. Why doesn't she actually include the "highest level ever" jobless rate? Seems sketchy...
Mon Apr 11, 2016, 03:21 PM
Apr 2016

Plus, what you quoted is just like what the other person did. A lot of jarring statements that inflame the passions, but don't offer any real evidence to back them up. the federal safety net for poor families was torn to shreds by the Clinton administration Based on action involving one program? Jeebus, the hysteria.

And again, the 1995 Crime Bill covered federal systems only, which accounted for 10% of the prison population. The other 90% were locked up by state governors, well outside the control of the Executive.

Which makes me wonder, just how much is Alexander not reporting when she grudgingly adds "some was later restored" towards the end there.

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