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    • None Dare Call It Child Care

      Posted by Sarahfelicity from New York Times

      Right now, the only parents who routinely get serious child-care assistance from the government are extremely poor mothers in welfare-to-work programs. Even for them, the waiting lists tend to be ridiculously long. In many states, once the woman actually gets a job, she loses the day care. Middle-class families get zip, even though a decent private child care program costs $12,000 a year in some parts of the country.

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    Jeff comments on:

    None Dare Call It Child Care

    And we have thousands of homeless, mentally ill people (many veterans of the Vietnam war) out on the streets every night. This country lacks a lot of consciousness – yet it is righteous that it is the most ethical, most moral in the world.

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    10:15 pm 10/18/07
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    Sandyenglish comments on:

    Iraqi infant mortality soars to 150 percent--a damning revelation of US war crimes

    The wsws has already changed the preposition.

    http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/may2007/iraq-m09.shtml

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    8:01 am 6/03/07
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    Sandyenglish comments on:

    Iraqi infant mortality soars to 150 percent--a damning revelation of US war crimes

    Thanks. I’ll forward this to the author.

    SE

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    7:54 am 6/03/07
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