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...recent years the number of special-needs cases has been exploding. As reported instances of physical and sexual abuse of children have risen, so has the willingness of judges to remove the victims from parents who beat and molest them. Now such children constitute nearly 60% of the foster-care caseload. And by 1991 the number of newborns infected with the virus that causes AIDS is expected to rise...
OVER the last ten years, costs under the Medicare program have risen at more than four times the rate of inflation. Thousands of senior citizens are grappling with increasing health care costs that outpace their income growth by more than 50 percent...
Over this same period, payments to doctors under Medicare have risen at a rate of almost 20 percent a year. The average doctor now makes $130,000, more than ten times more than the income for the average senior citizen household...
...depths of the tragedy can be measured elsewhere: Unemployment has risen to its highest level in fifteen years. Over 44 percent of the population in Greater Buenos Aires is now living in poverty. And for the first time in recent history, Argentina, which has traditionally prided itself as a haven for German, Italian, Russian and, more recently, Korean immigrants, saw a net flow of emigrants out of the country...
...infusions of cash and care paid off. The high school graduation rate has risen from 73.4% to 77.5%, and the percentage of students going on to Arkansas colleges, just 38.7% in 1982, has grown to 44.5%. All this has helped Clinton, 42, a boyish-looking Rhodes scholar with presidential ambitions, earn a national reputation as a wizard of school reform. "I feel real good about where we have come in the past 6 1/2 years," says the Governor...