Population: Planning for 2000

The poor may not be getting poorer, but they are constantly growing more numerous. Poor families in the U.S. have an average of 4.5 children compared with three for those above the poverty line. Last week President Nixon sent a message to Congress calling for a major increase in federal family planning services in the next five years. The goal: to make birth control information and devices available to all American women of childbearing age.

The greatest impact would be among the estimated 5,000,000 low-income women in this category. Nixon's proposal would raise federal spending on birth control—now $64 million...

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