October 17, 2003
Studying the Quagmire of Welfare Reform
It was a lot tougher than I expected it to be, studying welfare reform. I knew I had to examine the impact of the 1996 Personal Responsibility Act. I had listened closely to the politicians as they hammered out the language and logic of this law. I analyzed the newly established work rules. I read carefully the law's condemnation of single parenting. I pondered the larger social significance of removing the 61-year-old guarantee of a safety net for the nation's most desperately poor women and
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