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To: ChinuSFO who wrote (135747)	8/13/2013 8:27:28 AM
From: Bread Upon The Water	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

I disagree Chimu. We will have to leave it at that. I think a lot of answers can be found in data analysis. Sometimes it is the only way one can get feedback as to the effectiveness on one's plans and programs. This is especially true if one is dealing with programs on a mass scale like government programs for housing or welfare. To get a broad overview of trends and what is working one needs data. Key to our discussion here on this thread on welfare would be data that showed HS graduation rates for kids raised in single parent welfare homes vs. kids in two parent families. Probably it is less for welfare kids, but how much less and how much of a problem is it are the significant questions. The other data that would be useful would be to know how many kids raised on welfare are now on welfare themselves. Why isn't our government collecting that data? The answer, IMHO, is that Democrats have a welfare constituency they have to please and are afraid of the answers the data will provide. What if the data shows welfare kids are not getting and education and ending up on welfare themselves? Those who favor welfare don't want to have to deal with the policy implications of those answers, but if that data showed that why wouldn't we as a country want to try something else or a different approach? It is because of the politics of the situation that we don't address this.