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The 2.7 billion dollar spending plan earmarks about 4 percent more money that the current budget, but strips 110 million dollars from Governor Lynch's proposed budget………But the budget debate is not just about numbers, it's about political identity.

Welfare Brat is a memoir by Mary Childers which tells a compelling story of growing up white, on welfare, and in the Bronx. Her mother raised seven children, fathered by four different men. Mary tells host John Walters about how she beat the odds, through education and determination, and discusses the obstacles that make ending the cycle of poverty daunting.

As New Hampshire grows many communities find they're outgrowing their ways of governing. Many town meetings are being replaced by SB2, other towns are reexamining whether they need to expand their governments, while some say that our mostly municipal forms of government need to be changed to a more regional approach. Others say that these changes lose local control and that personal "hands on" approach that Granite Staters have relished for years. In our third installment we'll look at the way we govern and how growth might affect it. Laura's guests are John Andrews, Executive Director of the New Hampshire Municipal Association. Peter Francese, Demographic Trends Analyst for Ogilvy and Mather in New York City and Founder of American Demographics Magazine. Patrick Meighan, reporter and former regional Editor for the Nashua Telegraph and Cliff Sinnott, Executive Director of the Rockingham Planning Commission..
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