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“The welfare state has done to Black Americans what slavery (and Jim Crow and racism) could not have done. . .break up the black family. Today, just slightly over 30 percent of black kids live in two-parent families. Historically, from the 1870s on. . . 75-90 percent of black kids lived in two-parent families.”

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John Stossel, born on March 6, 1947, is an American journalist known for his distinctive interviewing style and advocacy of free markets. more

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Source: What's So Great About Christianity