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The most money we have ever been able to get appropriated for the juvenile justice bills was $55 million a year, about one-tenth of what was necessary.
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Mandatory minimums have been shown to be discriminatory and waste the taxpayers' money.
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Studies have shown that inmate participation in education, vocational and job training, prison work skills development, drug abuse, mental health and other treatment programs, all reduce recidivism, significantly.
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In fact, the Harvard study data indicates that 70 percent of African American children attend schools that are predominately African American, about the same level as in 1968 when Dr. King died.
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Another example of the educational inequality is the current debate over publicly financed school vouchers which will provide educational opportunities to a privileged handful, but deprive public schools of desperately needed resources.
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Giving a 10-year mandatory minimum for a second offense fist fight is not going to reduce the chance that someone will be stabbed 16 times when you are not funding any of the programs that are desperately needed to actually reduce juvenile crime.
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It is virtually impossible to compete in today's global economy without a college degree.
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The first year of the Bush administration we used up all of the surplus and ended up just with the Social Security and Medicare surplus, and each year worse than the year before.
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It is difficult to overstate the importance of the Civil Rights Act.
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If we increase spending, we have got to raise taxes or any combination.
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The death penalty is discriminatory and does not do anything about crime.
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I think we should worry about Social Security first and then tax cuts second.
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And what is needed to prevent them from joining gangs was ample recreation for boys as well as girls, jobs and internships for training and money, and assistance to allow their families to live in decent homes.
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Today, education is perhaps the most important function of state and local governments.
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