LBO #90

Marta Russell ap888 at lafn.org
Tue Aug 3 08:32:26 PDT 1999


Peter Kilander wrote:


> I received mine last week and it was worth the wait. I spotted an error,
> though. Heather Boushey writes: "Time has past since Clinton's signing of
> the cleverly named Personal Responsibility Act (PRA) ..." Actually, the
> thing's called "The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity
> Reconciliation Act" which is odd seeing as how it has little to do with
> reconciling work opportunity and personal responsility and much to do with
> supplying cheap, pliant labor and scapegoating the unfortunate.

The cuts to the SSI children's program is a prime example. Poor disabled children lifting themselves up by their bootstraps. That is the PRWOA image that comes to mind.

-- Marta Russell



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