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[Tuesday's U.S. Census bureau report showing a 70% increase
in children living with an unwed single parent seems to support 
Charles Murray's warnings about a growing underclass.  (According
to the report, the number grew from 3.7 to 6.4 million during 
the decade from 1983 to 1993.)  The lunchtime forum honoring Charles 
Murray sponsored by the Independence Institute next Wednesday 
July 27th in San Francisco is even more appropriately timed.  
-- Jeff C.]

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The INDEPENDENT INSTITUTE


          THE LUNCHTIME FORUM HONORING CHARLES MURRAY
      27 July 1994, Sheraton-Palace Hotel, San Francisco


Charles Murray's recent Wall Street Journal article, "The Coming
White Underclass" generated the greatest reader response in the
newspaper's history, and provoked commentary in news outlets from
The New York Times to the top four television networks and CNN.
In it, Murray recalled Daniel Patrick Moyniyan's 1965 warning about 
the disintegration of the black family, at a time when 26% of black 
births were to unwed mothers.  Today, the figure among whites is 22%, 
while African-American births out of wedlock has soared to 68% -- 
and over 80% in the inner cities.  As Murray further warned in a 
recent interview on This Week With David Brinkley, if current 
welfare programs remain intact, "You will have an underclass that is 
about four to five times the size of the one we have now."
                 _________________________

CHARLES MURRAY is the Bradley Fellow at the American Enterprise 
Institute and a member of the Board of Advisors of the Independent
Institute.  Best known as the author of the book, Losing Ground,
he is perhaps the nation's most influential commentator on the 
issues of poverty, welfare, the family and the underclass.
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        THE LUNCHEON FORUM HONORING CHARLES MURRAY
          R.S.V.P. to: The Independence Institute
Ms. Theresa Snyder, Coordinator (510) 632-1366  FAX: (510) 568-6040

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--
Jeff Chan
Internet: chan@shell.portal.com
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(Disclaimer: Opinions expressed are mine unless otherwise noted.)
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