Poorhouse politics. (welfare reform) (Cover Story)

From: The Progressive | Date: February 1, 1995| Author: | Copyright information

The Congressional Republicans' 'Personal Responsibility Act' perpetuates many political myths, but solves no social problems. Illegitimacy is rising equally in all social strata, not just in welfare families. Workfare only works if the pool of good jobs also expands.

For the poor, it's back to the workhouse and the orphanage. The press tends to credit Newt Gingrich with this Nineteenth Century scenario, embodied in the House Republicans' Contract with America. But Gingrich certainly didn't invent the assault on welfare. He only had to modify a script written and rehearsed by the ...

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