Bernie Sanders Slams Clinton for Having Supported Slashing of America's Safety Net

[bread_and_roses]

112. Welfare "reform" was a cruel and savage act

I worked in human services. I know what it did to families. I know what it did to women - mothers. I know how it impacted their children.

It was a sop to racists but poor and low-income whites suffered too, of course.

Many just "disappeared" - camping on relatives couches.

Single mothers could no longer go to school.

Mothers forced to work a few hours at McDonald's - requiring hours a day on buses to get infants and toddlers to day care so they could work a four hour shift at minimum wage ...

What used to be a meagre but at least marginally manageable safety net became insufficient to even the most basic needs.

And there is plenty of data and studies out there to confirm what I am saying.

Anyone who is actually interested - and not just in pretending that either one of the Clintons ever gave a damn about actual children and families - can find it easily enough.