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On the recordSeptember 14, 1995
Does that mean that, for instance in the District of Columbia, they would get 11 times as much actual money for the reduction of illegitimacy as would, for instance, the State of Mississippi, since they get 11 times as much block grant per poor child in the District of Columbia than in the State?
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Lindsey Graham
Republican · South Carolina

Editor's note · Context

Discussing funding disparities in welfare programs between the District of Columbia and Mississippi.

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