[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 94 (Tuesday, July 19, 1994)]
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                        PLEASE SUPPORT H.R. 1293

  (Mrs. MEYERS of Kansas asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. MEYERS of Kansas. Mr. Speaker, I talked with a man from the New 
York Times this morning, and he told me that the Census Bureau has new 
figures out today on the number of families comprised of a single 
parent who has never married. These figures show this group now makes 
up 27 percent of the population, exceeding that of single parents who 
have previously been married. In 1960, 243,000 were in that single 
family, never married group, and in 1993, Mr. Speaker, there are 6.3 
million in this group.
  Now can anyone doubt that our welfare policies have become a real 
incentive, no matter how well intentioned they were at the beginning 
when we promised a young woman that we are going to give her $18,000 a 
year if she will have two children with no men in the house, that that 
does not figure in her decision to undertake that lifestyle?
  Please cosponsor H.R. 1293 that changes direction in our welfare and 
provides that we should freeze AFDC, send it back to the States in 
block grants and give the States maximum flexibility. I ask for my 
colleagues' help with this bill.

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