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Study Shows Government Programs Do Little To Help Our Children
Submitted on 8.31.1998
San Francisco, CA -- A new study by the Pacific Research Institute (PRI) finds no correlation between the 150 federal programs targeted specifically at children – and the $50 billion annually spent on these programs – and children’s well-being.
The New State Budget
Submitted by Lance T. Izumi, J.D. on 8.25.1998
When faced with a huge $4.4 billion budget surplus, California lawmakers had the choice of returning most of the overcollected tax dollars back to taxpayers or increasing government spending. Sadly, in the recently approved state budget, state politicians decided to do much more of the latter than of the former.
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