"Welfare Reform" Turns Fifteen in the U.S.
Submitted on August 27, 2011
By STEPHEN PIMPARE - Counterpunch
The safety net has become less effective at lifting people out of poverty...But welfare reform is a small portion of this failure...After all, for most poor Americans, the program...is now irrelevant, and rather than “ending welfare as we know it,” we have, for all but a few, simply ended welfare, a process made relatively easy because we had allowed it to be quietly whittled away for three decades.
