Reply #38: What a crock!!! Worked for who??

[Breeze54]

It worked for the assholes who voted for it but certainly not for welfare recipients and poor kids!

"Poverty reduction should be the benchmark for assessing the reform's success." By that barometer, alleges Brodkin, welfare reform has been a failure: "The nation's poverty rate rose to 11.7 percent in 2001, up from 11.3 percent the prior year. More troubling still, inequality is growing and poverty is deepening. In 2001, the `poverty gap,' the gap between the official poverty line and the income of poor individuals, reached its highest level since measurements were first taken in 1979."

Mimi Abramovitz, a professor of social policy, describes the political machinations of welfare reform as nothing less than "a mean-spirited campaign to modify poor women's behavior and deny them their rights. This effort vilifies the marital, childbearing, and parenting behavior of poor women."