Germany’s Postsportverein Mühlhausen 1951 e.V have advanced to the semi-finals of the Europe Cup Men joining SF SKK El Nino Praha (Czech Republic) and ASC Grünwettersbach (Germany) Spain’s Real Club Cajasur Priego Tenis de Mesa narrowly defeated Postsportverein Mühlhausen 1951 e.V but failed to replicate that result in Germany Steffen MENGEL easily overcame Diogo CARVALHO while Ovidiu IONESCU delivered a straight-games win against Hampus SÖDERLUND Only Alvaro ROBLES managed to put Irvin BERTRAND under pressure before the French player sealed the match “We are very happy to win 3-0 and qualify for the semis but at the same time we knew that at home we are the stronger team and together with our supporters we could win and qualify,” said Ovidiu IONESCU with a significantly changed line-up compared to the opening leg Only Pavel SIRUCEK appeared in both legs and won on both occasions defeating Dawid CHILICKI and Patryk CHOJNOWSKI Vladislav URSU and Andrej GACINA secured wins in the opening two matches against Piotr MICHALSKI and Patryk CHOJNOWSKI – REAL CLUB CAJASUR PRIEGO TENIS DE MESA 3-0 REAL CLUB CAJASUR PRIEGO TENIS DE MESA – Postsportverein Mühlhausen 1951 e.V The European Table Tennis Union (ETTU) is the governing body of the sport of table tennis in Europe and is the only authority recognized for this purpose by the International Table Tennis Federation The ETTU deals with all matters relating to table tennis at a European level including the development and promotion of the sport in the territories controlled by its 58 member associations and the organization of continental table tennis competitions A night tour through the historic and winding streets of Mühlhausen is a very special experience Mühlhausen is one of the most interesting towns in Thuringia Mühlhausen is inextricably linked with Thomas Müntzer the wife and later widow of Thomas Müntzer,… The pleasure tour begins at the Brauhaus zum Löwen which is located in the old town centre of the medieval imperial city of Mühlhausen Spain’s Real Club Cajasur Priego Tenis de Mesa defeated Germany’s PostSV Mühlhausen 1951 e.V Hampus SÖDERLUND proved to be the key player in the Spanish team’s success Álvaro ROBLES gave the Spanish club a perfect start with a win over Daniel HABESOHN and Hampus SÖDERLUND followed suit with a victory against Irvin BERTRAND Steffen MENGEL shifted the momentum by defeating Carlos MACHADO ROBLES stepped up with a chance to clinch the tie in the fourth encounter SÖDERLUND held off a spirited comeback attempt by the German side securing a four-game win over HABESOHN to give the Spanish team a narrow advantage heading into the return leg on April 27 The supporters lifted us to a superb level we’ll prepare and refocus as a team to be ready for the match in Mühlhausen,” said SÖDERLUND REAL CLUB CAJASUR PRIEGO TENIS DE MESA – Postsportverein Mühlhausen 1951 e.V Mischa Bredewold third in hilly race to Mühlhausen Ruth Edwards (Human Powered Health) moved into the yellow jersey after she picked up nine seconds on overnight leader Margot Vanpachtenbeke (VolkerWessels) when the group splintered on the final kick to the line.  Edwards is now five seconds clear of Vanpachtenbeke ahead of Saturday’s pivotal 31km time trial The rugged stage was animated by a fine solo attack from Katarzyna Niewiadoma (Canyon-SRAM) who forged clear at the foot of the penultimate climb with 29km remaining The Pole extended her advantage over the top and she still had a lead of 40 seconds or so on the chasers when she crested the top of the final classified ascent with 18km to go a reduced group of 15 or so riders were giving chase with Brand’s teammate Brodie Chapman performing a key role in bringing some cohesion to the pursuit Niewiadoma was perhaps ultimately doomed by the crosswind sections in the closing 10km but she stuck gamely to her task deep into the finale before she was finally reeled in on an unclassified rise with a little under 5km to go Sarah Gigante (AG Insurance-Soudal Team) attempted to break clear just as Niewiadoma was caught and that attack prefigured a breathless run-in where the front group splintered and reformed several times Swinkels went from distance in the gently climbing rise to the line but Brand always appeared in control of the situation having been shepherded through the finale by Chapman and Shirin van Anrooij Brand duly came past her compatriot Swinkels in the final 50m to claim stage victory I didn’t feel the best and there was a chance the break would stay away but it started all over again when they were brought back and then Kasia went away,” Brand said we knew it would be a sprint and the plan was to go 100% for me.” but she downplayed her prospects here given that Edwards and Vanpachtenbeke are still more than two minutes clear of the rest after their long-range escape on the opening day in Jena “It was really nice to win the GC a couple of years ago and coming here it was one of the goals but now we have two leaders with more than two minutes,” Brand said “It’s a very long time trial tomorrow so it’s very optimistic to think we can close the gap.” Results powered by FirstCycling Research Fellow in Empirical Policy Analysis and individuals are at the heart of America’s thriving civil society providing effectively for the welfare of communities in ways the government can't Please select what you would like included for printing: Copy the text below and then paste that into your favorite email application This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply Service map data © OpenStreetMap contributors This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page organised by the European Table Tennis Union (ETTU) is the most important international club competition The Men’s European Champions League took place for first time in 1998/99 season with the aim to replace European Club Cup of Champions the previous highest level European club competition held since 1960/61 season Borussia Düsseldorf is the most successful club in the history of Men’s competition They won its very first one in the 1988/89 season Belgian club La Villette Charleroi still occupies second place with seven titles Four clubs lifted the trophy five times each – CSM Cluj whilst Russian club Orenburg won five titles in recent seasons (2011/12 whilst TTC Zugbrücke Grenzau was champion three times The media accreditation process for the HYLO Champions League Final 4 2025 Want to experience world-class table tennis up close and get a behind-the-scenes look at one.. 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Originally distributed by the Tribune Content Agency Americans are less safe today than they were a decade ago due to failed models of criminal justice reform and politicized unequal law enforcement.  Learn More: Rogue Prosecutors Tourist Information Mühlhausen The Tourist Information team looks forward to your visit We are open daily during the high season and offer a customer-oriented service with advice You will find us in the immediate vicinity of the town hall at Ratsstraße 20 We are happy to arrange: guided tours of the town Interesting facts about the Tourist Information: Tourist Information Mühlhausen is part of Wirtschaftsbetriebe Mühlhausen GmbH and has various tasks In addition to providing services for guests and citizens in the office Work in supra-regional tourist associations such as the Thuringian Towns Association or the Bach Working Group Creating networks and working on joint projects is another area of activity We are a nature park partner of the Eichsfeld-Hainich-Werratal Nature Park The Peasants' War of 1525 left its mark on the collective memory of German-speaking countries for generations Thuringia was not only the scene of a decisive turning point in the uprising but also the final place of activity of the radical reformer Thomas Müntzer the Thuringian state government has decided to use the 500th anniversary of the German Peasants' War as an opportunity to host a Thuringian state exhibition in Mühlhausen and Bad Frankenhausen in 2025 Various events will be organized in the Mühlhausen museums and in the Panorama Museum Bad Frankenhausen 2025 under the title "freiheyt 1525 - 500 years of the Peasants' War" Mühlhausen and Bad Frankenhausen are central locations for the historical events Duration of the exhibition in Mühlhausen: April 26 to October 19 2025Duration of the exhibition in Bad Frankenhausen: May 10 to August 17 The medieval imperial town of Mühlhausen in Thuringia is steeped in history and is a gem with a historic town centre that is also an area monument The nickname "muhlhousia turrita" - the tower-adorned Mühlhausen - originated as early as the Middle Ages The name still applies today because no matter from which direction you approach the town the numerous church towers can be seen from afar The town's period of prosperity was in the Middle Ages and its stony witnesses still exist today domestic architecture and half-timbered buildings as well as former mill sites The entire historic town entre impresses and inspires at the same time were appointed recently to positions in the Trump administration David Muhlhausen worked at Heritage as an analyst in the Center for Data Analysis He served as a leading expert in evaluating the effectiveness of federal social programs and often testified before Congress on the issue In July he was named director of the National Institute of Justice Attorney General Jeff Sessions named Muhlhausen as Executive Director of Federal Interagency Council on Crime Prevention and Improving Reentry (FIRC) The FIRC is part of President Trump’s effort to encourage prison reform "Recidivism rates in this country are unacceptably high," Sessions said in announcing Muhlhausen’s position more dangerous work for our law enforcement officers the Department of Justice is committed to improving outcomes for those reintegrating into society who want to abide by our laws “The FIRC plays a critical role in making that progress possible and so I want to thank Director Muhlhausen for his willingness to serve and for his hard work on this issue already I am confident that he will be a success in this new position," Sessions said Stecker worked in Heritage’s broadcast services department as a senior media associate before she moved on to lead the American Enterprise Institute's media department She was appointed April 12 by Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar as assistant secretary for public affairs The Office of the Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs conducts national public affairs programs provides centralized leadership and guidance for public affairs activities within HHS' staff and operating divisions and regional offices manages the department’s digital communications and administers the Freedom of Information and Privacy Acts “Heritage wishes the best of luck to David and Judy in their Administration roles” said Heritage Executive Vice President Kim Holmes “I know that they look forward to making real contributions to the important work done by the Departments of Justice and Health and Human Services.” Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker In the semifinal of the Champions League Men 1 FC Saarbrücken TT was under great pressure to justify opening leg win against Post SV Mühlhausen 1951 e.V with three matches out of four went full distance Darko JORGIC overcame KIM Taehyun (8:11 11:4 5:11 11:8 6:5) and he also overcame Ovidiu IONESCU (11:7 10:12 10:12 11:8 6:1) Patrick FRANZISKA also beat IONESCU (11:13 12:10 13:11 11:5) Takuya JIN lost to Daniel HABESOHN (6:11 12:10 11:6 9:11 1:6) “It was another very difficult match for us For the beginning it was clear the match could go either way If I had lost the opening match that was resolved with sudden death point Franziska would be under even greater pressure against IONESCU KIM was also at the top of his game he brought out the best in us I believed I could beat him even in the moments when it went from e.g Patrick and Ovidiu met the expectations and they played close game as they always did FRANZISKA maintained focus even when he was losing and thanks to that win and 2:0 we were in the final JIN had his chances against HABESOHN but Daniel won it deservingly At the end Ionescu and I played the match that could not make the difference for neither of us but we kept the level high.” In the final they will meet Borussia Düsseldorf “We are constantly playing so many matches against each other We are looking for surprises and we hope for the spectacular final Our aim is to win first ever title in Champions League.” Patrick FRANZISKA said: “We feel very relieved It could be easily 2:0 for Post SV Mühlhausen at the beginning; we won it by narrow margin almost stole it Now we are looking forward our match against Borussia Düsseldorf They won last time but we hope for our first title.” Wiebes and Roseman-Gannon sprint for second and third in Mühlhausen The Belgian all-rounder launched a winning late-race attack and crossed the line 32 seconds ahead of the peloton Her teammate Lorena Wiebes won the bunch sprint for second ahead of Ruby Roseman-Gannon (Jayco-AlUla) in third Kopecky's victory came after a dominant team performance that saw SD Worx win the opening team time trial Kopecky secured the overall title by 35 seconds ahead of teammates Wiebes and 41 seconds ahead of Bredewold Roseman-Gannon was the first rider from outside the ranks of SD Worx on the GC The final stage 6 at Thüringen was one of the toughest stages of the six-day event offering the field a 125.2km race in Mühlhausen The stage opened with a larger loop that included two ascents over Waldbaden (1.7km at 5.1%) and Hohe Weg (3.2km at 6.1%) The field then raced toward the closing hilly circuit with two climbs before a run-in to the finish line in Mühlhausen A four-rider break set off early that included Mieke Kröger (Germany) Amandine Fouquenet (Arkea) and Fabienne Jahrig (Maxx-Solar Rose) The quartet gained a small lead over an SD Worx-led peloton Jahrig was distanced from the break at the base of the second ascent of the day As the field further reduced the gap to the breakaway several attacks came from Fenix-Deceuninck and a reshuffling breakaway formed that eventually led to Kopecky in a solo move 30 seconds ahead of the peloton AG Insurance-Soudal-QuickStep led the chase but Kopecky's advantage continued to grow to over a minute in the final kilometres The Belgian rider crossed the finish line 32 seconds ahead of the field with the victory while her teammate Wiebes won the bunch sprint for second place and Roseman-Gannon in third Kirsten has a background in Kinesiology and Health Science She has been involved in cycling from the community and grassroots level to professional cycling's biggest races She began her sports journalism career with Cyclingnews as a North American Correspondent in 2006 Kirsten became Women's Editor – overseeing the content strategy race coverage and growth of women's professional cycling – before becoming Deputy Editor in 2023 As used in this paper and the book by the same name,[2] the term “social program” refers to efforts by the federal government that attempt to improve human behavior by increasing skills or awareness These programs engage in social engineering that attempts to enhance the well-being of citizens Social programs are intended to fix social problems that individuals are assumed to be unable to solve themselves Head Start is a classic example of a social program Created as part of the War on Poverty in 1965 Head Start is a preschool community-based program that is intended to provide a boost to disadvantaged children before they enter elementary school social programs are considered discretionary and grouped with “other mandatory” domestic programs This classification includes numerous education Determining the effectiveness of federal social programs is particularly relevant given the current political debate over the federal government’s persistent deficits and debt Many of the budget plans in Congress reduce the rate of spending increases on federal social programs Very few plans actually propose real spending reductions This would be true only if Head Start is an effective program that actually benefits the children it serves Using evidence from scientifically rigorous multisite experimental evaluations of national programs published since 1990 demonstrates that federal social programs such as Head Start are ineffective The American people have nothing to fear from the elimination of ineffective programs we would be truly frightened at the prospect of paying it off   it is a practical estimate of social program spending Social programs funded under these categories include Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) The figures presented include only federal outlays and ignore spending by state and local governments the annual growth rate of 5.1 percent in social program spending per capita means that spending in this category doubles every 19 years This fundamental transformation of the notion of freedom allowed Franklin D. Roosevelt to assert that “[e]very man has a right to life; and this means that he has also a right to make a comfortable living.”[17] Instead of requiring that Americans not harm each other obligated to ensure that every American has a comfortable living the advocates of the Great Society sought not to provide relief and social insurance programs but rather to social engineer a better society Johnson expressed freedom in terms of reaching the highest ideals From the Progressive Era through the New Deal to the Great Society the role of the federal government was greatly expanded Instead of securing natural rights based on the principles of the Founding the mission of the federal government now revolves around the Great Society’s objective of providing effective freedom that alleviates material hardship and promotes the realization of individual fulfillment Democrats and Republicans have embraced the progressive cause of providing social programs to assist individuals in achieving their full potential as human beings. Further, support for federal social engineering programs crosses ideological lines. Despite the transformation of freedom coming from the Left, many on the Right have embraced federal social engineering.[19] Given the fiscal crises that the federal government is facing holding federal social programs accountable for their performance is necessary to regain control of excessive spending Why should Congress routinely spend taxpayer dollars on failed social programs that do not work Operating with increasingly scarce resources federal policymakers need to start denying funds to ineffective programs even if calls for funding these programs seem morally compelling Calling for more spending on social programs may seem morally compelling but continuing to spend taxpayer dollars on programs that do not produce their intended results is morally indefensible Social programs should be carefully evaluated to determine whether they do in fact work Determining whether these programs work requires reliably sorting out the effect of a social program from confounding factors While large-scale experimental evaluations are the best method for assessing cause-and-effect relationships there are additional methods to judge the merits of social programs Most notable is the legal matter of whether or not the U.S Constitution provides Congress the authority to create social programs in the first place the worthiness of spending hundreds of billions of dollars on social programs should be judged in light of the fact that the federal government’s gross debt is $17.3 trillion There are numerous methods available for making sense of the world around us We frequently make personal observations of events around us to bring order to our lives We often assign cause-and-effect relationships to events we personally experience learning that touching a hot stove will burn one’s hand is an easy cause-and-effect association that does not need to be tested more than once We can easily correlate the act of touching the stove with the pain felt Firsthand experience is often instrumental to developing knowledge we make personal observations that guide us in our activities We often seek the advice of others based on their personal experiences the usefulness of personal observations or experiences can be undermined when assessing complex social interactions that can have multiple causes This problem is particularly acute when assessing the effectiveness of social programs where multiple factors can cause the outcomes of interest The best way to determine whether federal social programs do in fact work is to conduct large-scale multisite experimental evaluations that attempt to isolate the direct effects of social programs from other factors that affect the outcomes of interest Experimental evaluations are the “gold standard” of evaluation designs Randomized experiments attempt to demonstrate causality by (1) holding all other possible causes of the outcome constant (2) deliberately altering only the possible cause of interest and (3) observing whether the outcome differs between the intervention and control groups can never establish 100 percent certainty that all of the potential causes (confounding factors) were held constant When conducting an impact evaluation of a social program identifying and controlling for all of the possible factors that influence the outcomes of interest is impossible We simply do not have enough knowledge to accomplish this task Even if we could identify all possible causal factors collecting complete and reliable data on all of these factors would likely still be beyond our abilities it is impossible to isolate a person participating in a social program from his family in order to “remove” the influences of family This is where the benefits of random assignment become clear Because we do not know enough about all possible causal factors to identify and hold them constant randomly assigning test subjects to intervention and control groups allows us to have a high degree of confidence that these unidentified factors will not confound our estimate of the intervention’s impact Random assignments should evenly distribute these unidentified factors between the intervention and control groups of an experimental evaluation Congress can take several steps to ensure that federal social programs are properly assessed using experimental evaluations These experimental evaluations should be large in scale and based on multiple sites to avoid the problems of simplistic generalizations Given the multitude of confounding factors that may influence the performance of social programs the more likely that the federal social program will be assessed under all of the conditions under which it operates the funded activities are implemented in multiple cities or towns While individual social programs operating in a single location and funded by the federal government may undergo experimental evaluations single-site evaluations do not inform policymakers of the general effectiveness of national social programs Small-scale evaluations assess only the impact on a small fraction of the people served by federal social programs The success of a single program that serves a particular jurisdiction or population does not necessarily mean that the same program will achieve similar success in other jurisdictions or among different populations small-scale evaluations are poor substitutes for large-scale evaluations the Minneapolis experiment found that mandatory arrests lead to significantly lower rates of domestic violence but police departments across the nation adopted the mandatory arrest policy based on the results of one evaluation conducted in one city Despite the trillions of dollars that Congress has spent on federal social programs only a few have undergone large-scale experimental impact evaluations We have done our best to include all of the relevant multisite experimental evaluations of federal social programs that have been published since 1990 These 20 evaluations assessed the impact of 21 federal social programs: This section covers federal social programs that are intended to benefit a wide range of clients—from infants and toddlers to adult heads of household Federal programs target a host of social problems Early Head Start, created during the 1990s, is a federally funded community-based program that serves low-income families with pregnant women, infants, and toddlers up to age three. While the short-term findings indicated modest positive impacts, almost all of the positive findings for all Early Head Start Participants are driven by the positive findings for blacks.[28] The program had little to no effect on white and Hispanic participants who are the majority of program participants For the long-term findings, the overall initial effects of Early Head Start at age three clearly faded away by the fifth grade. For the 11 child-social-emotional outcomes, none of the results were found to have statistically meaningful impacts.[29] Further Early Head Start failed to have statistically measurable effects on the 10 measures of child academic outcomes Head Start actually had a harmful effect on three-year-old participants once they entered kindergarten Teachers reported that non-participating children were more prepared in math skills than the children who participated in Head Start The third-grade follow-up to the Head Start Impact Study followed students’ performance through the end of third grade.[32] The results shed further light on the ineffectiveness of Head Start Head Start had little to no effect on cognitive or parenting outcomes of participating children In addition to these failures, evaluations of the Enhanced Early Head Start with Employment Services, which provides early childhood care and employment training services to families, and the Even Start Family Literacy Program, which is intended to meet the basic educational needs of parents and children, failed to produce statistically meaningful impacts.[33] School-Age Children. Federal social programs targeting school-age children do not fare any better. An evaluation of the 21st Century Community Learning Centers, an after-school program intended to improve the academic performance of students, found that the program actually decreased the academic performance and increased the behavioral problems of participating students.[34] Created in 1965, Upward Bound is an original War on Poverty social program intended to help economically disadvantaged students successfully complete high school and attend college.[35] However, an evaluation found that in general, the program has almost entirely no effect on these goals.[36] Other school-age social programs have been found to be ineffective too.[37] Families. Of all the social programs reviewed, welfare-to-work strategies have had the most positive results. In 1989, the federal government funded the National Evaluation of Welfare-to-Work Strategies (NEWWS), which assessed the long-term effects of 11 mandatory welfare-to-work programs operating in seven sites during the late 1980s and 1990s.[38] According to Lawrence M a professor of politics at New York University Overall, NEWWS found that welfare-to-work strategies were more effective at increasing the earning of participants. In particular, strategies that focused on quick entry into the labor force moved welfare recipients into jobs more quickly and were more effective than strategies that focused on job training.[40] While the 1989 welfare-to-work evaluation showed consistent positive impacts on earnings welfare reform experts argue that the spread of work-focused strategies encouraged many individuals to find employment in the first place rather than seeking welfare assistance This effect should surely be considered a positive benefit of welfare reform and was not part of the NEWWS evaluation used a control group that participates in some form of welfare assistance This fact means that these experimental evaluations cannot assess the potential benefit of encouraging individuals to obtain employment instead of seeking welfare assistance and are an inadequate method for estimating changes in welfare caseloads Despite the success of welfare-to-work strategies, other social programs focusing on families that have undergone multisite experimental evaluations have been found to be ineffective.[41] For example: This section covers federal social programs that are intended to boost the job skills and employability of workers. The federal government has spent decades trying to improve the earnings of low-income individuals through various employment and training programs, but the Government Accountability Office has concluded that there is little evidence to show that these programs are effective.[45] Adults and Youth. Conducted in 16 sites across the nation during the late 1980s and early 1990s, the Job Training Partnership Act evaluation tracked program effects for more than 20,000 adult men, adult women, and out-of-school youths over the course of 30 months.[46] Overall the performance of JTPA programs is widely considered to be a failure While adult females had several positive outcomes the results were generally not large enough to be considered very meaningful JTPA programs were largely ineffective in raising the incomes of adult males or male and female youths Adults. To assess the effectiveness of self-employment training programs for those receiving Unemployment Insurance benefits, the federal government sponsored two experimental impact evaluations of programs in Washington State and Massachusetts.[47] Both programs had some very small and fleeting effects on increasing self-employment but they were largely ineffective at raising the earnings of participants Three multisite experimental evaluations of employment and training programs that specifically target youth strongly suggest that these programs are poorly serving this population Created in 1964, the Job Corps is a residential job-training program that serves disadvantaged youth in 125 sites across the nation. An experimental evaluation found the program to be ineffective.[50] Over the course of the 48-month study Job Corps participants actually worked less than the control group The study also revealed that the Job Corps had little impact on increasing the number of hours worked per week If the Job Corps is effective in improving the skills of its participants then it should have substantially raised the hourly wages they received Job Corps participants earned an average of $0.24 more per hour than non-participants but this difference decreased to $0.22 per hour after one year The JOBSTART Demonstration evaluated the impact of 13 job-training programs that were offered by community-based organizations, schools, and the Job Corps.[51] Overall, the programs failed to increase the earnings of participants. Of the 13 sites, 12 were found to be ineffective at raising the incomes of participants.[52] However one site—the Center for Employment Training (CET) in San Jose California—had a positive impact on earnings the CET appears to have been effective at raising the incomes of participants the important question is whether these results can be replicated at different sites and for different populations Similarly, the Quantum Opportunity Program demonstration, which offered intensive and comprehensive services with the intention of helping at-risk youth graduate from high school and enroll in postsecondary education or training, failed to increase the employability or earnings of youth.[55] Based on the scientifically rigorous multisite experimental evaluations published since 1990 the answer certainly cannot be in the affirmative Despite the best social engineering efforts overwhelming evidence points to the conclusion that federal social programs are ineffective Ameliorating such problems as low academic achievement and personal relations appears to be out of reach for federal social programs The most notable exception is welfare-to-work programs but participants still received some government assistance The evidence clearly shows that federal social programs are ineffective It cannot be just a coincidence that the many multisite evaluations published since 1990 overwhelmingly find that this is true Our nation faces a severe debt crisis that threatens our very future Americans should not fear eliminating social programs Now is the time for deep budget cuts in federal social programs The social programs that Congress continues to fund need to undergo large-scale experimental evaluations Multisite experimental evaluations are the best method for assessing the effectiveness of federal social programs this method has been used to evaluate only a handful of federal social programs Federal spending has grown rapidly over the last decade leading to substantial budget deficits that have crippled the economy and financially harmed Americans.  Personal Inflation Calculator This partnership was made possible thanks Germany’s recent history The City of Münster had already tried to establish relations with a city in the former GDR in the 1980s which had been divided after the Second World War not until the German-German border reopened that the friendship treaty between Mühlhausen and Münster was signed in 1990 It was the first partnership between two German cities with democratically elected municipal parliaments Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page.