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Tuesday, February 08, 2005

Steve's Outrage of the Day: Budget Strangeness

So I was looking at reports of Bush's budget and I noticed that it increases the Abstinence-only education budget. This after Bush said that he would only increase funds to programs that work. He reduces funds to programs that sponser poor but smart children to go to college but a program that is killing kids* gets more money.

* The Abstinence-only programs have been shown to reduce teens ability to understand how to use condoms or other forms of birth control. Teen pregnancy and STDs have risen greatly in the last 4 years after declining for the previous 6.

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