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1	The Rise and Fall of Welfare
2	The Number of Welfare Recipients, 1936 to 1992
3	Historic Living Arrangement of Children in the U.S.: Percent Living with Two Parents
4	Increasing Divorce and Rise in AFDC Recipients
5	Among First Births conceived before Marriage, percent marrying before birth of child by race and Hispanic origin: United States, 1965-69, and 1990-94
6	The Extent of Poverty Among Single Mothers (1995)
7	African American Children Born Out-of –Wedlock
8	Percent of Children Under 5 Living with Two Married Parents (2000)
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10	Children Born out of Wedlock and on Welfare, 1940 to 1990
11	The Annual Increase in Welfare Recipients and Out-of-Wedlock Births, 1941 to 1994
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13	Charles Murray “The AFDC payment should go to zero. Single mothers are not eligible for subsidized housing or for food stamps. From society's perspective, to have a baby that you cannot care for yourself is profoundly irresponsible, and the government will no longer subsidize it.”
14	Murray He urged (1993, A24) that “the state stop interfering with the natural forces that have done the job quite effectively for millennia.” Murray (1993) proposed that the naive program of charity—that is, welfare—be revoked in order to restore economic hardship: “Restoring economic penalties translates into the first and central policy prescription: to end all economic support for single mothers”
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