WILL WELFARE REFORM MAKE CHILDREN BEGGARS?

From: The Record (Bergen County, NJ) | Date: February 12, 1995 | Copyright information

The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
02-12-1995
WILL WELFARE REFORM MAKE CHILDREN BEGGARS?
Date: 02-12-1995, Sunday
Section: REVIEW & OUTLOOK
Edition: All Editions -- Sunday

THE NEW welfare plan offered by House Republicans would leave
millions of women and children with no means of support.

It offers no added money for job training or child care. It cuts
benefits to all teen mothers and legal aliens. And it imposes a strict
time limit on receiving welfare, without offering a public job of last
resort, even during recessions.

The plan's chief author, Rep. Clay Shaw, R-Fla., calls it tough
love. ...

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