U.S. Welfare "Reform" Laws Deepening and Perpetuating Poverty
Submitted on December 30, 2011
By Sherwood Ross - Znet Commentary
Since 1996, politicians have bragged about the success of Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF)...“If kicking low-income children and their families off welfare is the measure, than TANF was a huge success”...TANF’s mantra that “any job is a good job” put even make-work jobs ahead of education. “Tens of thousands of low-income mothers were made to quit college to do up to 35 hours per week of unpaid ‘workfare’...sweeping streets, picking up trash in parks and cleaning public restrooms in exchange for benefits as low as $240 a month.”
