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...rush to judgment on this issue began in 1992, when New Jersey enacted its "family-cap" law. Since Aug. 1, 1993, women on welfare who have another child are denied additional cash assistance, an amount that varies from $64 to $102 a month depending on family size. Profound "positive" effects were claimed for the new law almost immediately. The key analysis was conducted by June O'Neill, who now directs the Congressional Budget Office. O'Neill, who had been hired by New Jersey to defend a lawsuit aimed at overturning the law, found "strong evidence that the family cap ... generated...
That study, a five-year inquiry by a group of Rutgers University researchers, has now produced its first in-depth report of the family-cap policy. It directly contradicts O'Neill's findings. After closely monitoring 4,428 mothers--2,999 who were penalized if they had more children while on welfare and a control group of 1,429 who were not--the Rutgers team says there is "no reduction in the birthrate of welfare mothers attributable" to the family cap. The dissonance between O'Neill and Rutgers is largely explained by three factors: a general decline in births...
...wore a red cap emblazoned with the letters "CCCP" during the recent Ken Burns' "Baseball" series on PBS, said materialism and commercials have corrupted the game, naming Adam Smith, the father of market economics, as the culprit...
...search for "John Doe No. 2" ended as the man depicted in the sketches (tattooed, heavyset, wearing a baseball cap) turned out to be Army Private Todd Bunting, who happened to visit the Ryder truck agency in Junction City, Kansas, on the day before prime suspect Timothy McVeigh did. Bunting has been ruled out as a suspect, but the search for other accomplices in the Oklahoma City bombing continues...
...results were as impressive as they were diverse. One student group used the Internet to track acid rain on the polar ice cap. Another communicated with researchers kayaking through South America. A class from Tucson, Arizona, invented a modern version of hide-and-seek called Where Are We? in which players zero in on one another's location by exchanging hints through E-mail...