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WALL STREET JOURNAL
The Wall Street Journal continues to
print misleading editorials on welfare and poverty. A November 2, 1998
guest-commentary by Mickey Kaus boldly defends welfare reform by noting the decrease in
national poverty. Despite this decrease however, on average, poor families actually became
poorer in 1997. Meanwhile, the decline in poverty was merely 3 percent despite a tight
labor market in the midst of the lowest unemployment rate in the last 24 years. Just
stating that there are fewer persons on welfare fails to prove that the majority of former
recipients are no longer poor. Call The
Wall Street Journal at (212) 416-2500 and tell the editors that you unconvinced by the
touted success of the 1996 welfare reforms.
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NY1 News
Contact NY1 and tell
them they should stop accommodating the Giuliani Administration's cowardly
policy of refusing to go face-to-face with their opposition on the air. The NY1
program Inside City Hall has repeatedly given in to the Mayor's threats that his
commissioners will not appear on camera in a debate format with their opponents. The
result - Jason Turner, the HRA Commissioner, gets a platform to spew his philosophy
virtually unchallenged. Any dissenting voices appear after Turner has had his
say. Tell NY1 to call the Mayor's bluff. If the Commissioner of HRA or any
other Administration official will not appear on screen with anyone who can
challenge them, then don't give them airtime.
Contact NY1 at (212) 465-0111.
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