Palin Slashed Funding for Teen Moms

ST. PAUL -- 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. Full Story »

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by Dwight Rousu - Oct. 1, 2008

The article reports on Paylin slashing funds for social services that had been approved by the legislature. While she advocates for a "just say yes, yes, yes (or is a just say no?)" sex education policy, she cuts the funds for the victims of that policy against science based sex education. The investigative reporting gives a vivid idea of what would be in store for the country should McCain encounter his next plane crash.

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