(% Sathj sar§iM Busli Addresses Steelworkers The Associated Prei WEST MfFLIN, Pa. - President Bush admitta Sunday that he is worried about the eonomy’s “paltry” growth and, withou making promises, assured steel compfly executives and workers that protectig domestic steel is a nation al securityjriority. The pcsident and first lady Laura Bush intefupted their Texas ranch vaca tion to spnd their Sunday like millions of everyey Americans - at a picnic and Little Lwigue game. Bush the first Little Leaguer to grow up to fe U.S. president, was inducted into thtLittle League Hall of Excellence in Souh Williamsport and then tossed the ojening pitch at the league’s World Serie championship game between Japaese and Floridian teams. Bsh, who claimed the White House onljefter a contested Florida recount, said wifi a chuckle, “I must confess I have a Study: Inmate, Parole List Swells Tie Associated Press WASHINGTON - The number of tdults behind bars, on parole or on pro- Oation reached a record 6.47 million in 2000 - or one in 32 American adults, the government reported Sunday. On the positive side, the percentage increase from 1999 was half the average annual rate since 1990. Jails and prisons held 30 percent of the adults in the corrections system, or 1,933,503. People on probation account ed for 59 percent of the total, or 3,839,532. An additional 725,527 adults were on parole, a period of supervision following release from prison. 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I worry about our citizens who work.” He bemoaned the “paltry 1 percent” growth in the economy over the last 12 months and said his tax cuts were just part of a remedy that also includes debt repayment to ease interest rates and “a trade policy that’s going to have a level playing field as its component.” Leo Gerard, president of the United Steelworkers of America labor union that worked last year to defeat Bush’s election, ber of adults in the corrections system has tripled, so they now make up 3.1 of the country’s adult population, com pared with 1 percent in 1980, said Allen J. Beck, a chief researcher with the Justice Department’s Bureau of Justice Statistics. “It’s just overwhelming,” said Kara Gotsch, a spokeswoman for the American Civil Liberties Union's National Prison Project, which advo cates alternatives to incarceration. “It just shows that we need to put much more into prevention.” During the 19905, the corrections population increased 49 percent. 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