Palin Slashed Funding for Teen Moms
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Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the Republican vice-presidential nominee who revealed Monday that her 17-year-old daughter is pregnant, earlier this year used her line-item veto to slash funding for a state program benefiting teen mothers in need of a place to live.
After the legislature passed a spending bill in April, Palin went through the measure reducing and eliminating funds for programs she opposed. Inking her initials on the legislation -- "SP" -- Palin reduced funding for Covenant House Alaska by more than 20 percent, cutting funds from $5 million to $3.9 million. Covenant House is a mix of programs and shelters for troubled youths, including Passage House, which is a transitional home for teenage mothers.
According to Passage House's web site, its purpose is to provide "young mothers a place to live with their babies for up to eighteen months while they gain the necessary skills and resources to change their lives" and help teen moms "become productive, successful, independent adults who create and provide a stable environment for themselves and their families."
Palin's own daughter, Bristol, is five months pregnant and has plans to wed.
"Bristol and the young man she will marry are going to realize very quickly the difficulties of raising a child, which is why they will have the love and support of our entire family," Palin said in a statement released by the McCain campaign. "We ask the media to respect our daughter and Levi's privacy, as has always been the tradition of children of candidates."
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Sounds bad, huh?...
A Governor going around slashing funds on teen pregnancy and then has that situation in her very own family...what a hypocrite, eh?...
Well..."No" actually...It seems this reporter does research like Stevie Wonder on a firing range...
According to Alaska Conenant House's
very own disclosure from the previous year, they received $1,194,788 from the government...
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FINANCIAL DATA
Revenues and Expenses: Fiscal Year Ending December 31, 2006
REVENUE
Contributions $1,667,796
Government Grants $1,194,788
Program Services $0
Investments $67,947
Special Events $271,980
Sales $0
Other $11,139
Total Revenue $3,213,650
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So while the legislature was asking for a RAISE from $1,194,788 to $5 million, Palin reduced the RAISE to $3.9 million...
In other words she still TRIPLED the amount of funding instead of quadrupling it...
That's not a "slash"...that's fiscal responsibility while still greatly expanding the program, and either this reporter has absolutely no clue how to report, or he does and still pushed this forward in an attempt to smear so his ideology wins in the fall...
09-03-2008, 01:31 PM
Palin Slashed Funding for Teen Moms
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