----- Original Message ----- From: "Justin Schwartz" <jkschw at hotmail.com> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Monday, March 25, 2002 9:06 AM Subject: Re: Walzer on the Left
> Evidence?
_Why Americans Hate Welfare_, by Martin Gilens. Some programs like AFDC are already racialized in the eyes of many before anyone asks a poll question. Others, like Social Security, aren't.
> Btw, although a very bad effect of the destruction of AFDCis
> thatpeople are homeless and starving, a good effect is that the welfare
> queen talk has fallen out of favor. now if we could only make workfare
into
> a program that gives real jobs at real wages?
Judging from what people who actually work with poor people have told me, workfare is probably a waste of money. Why force the parent out of the household and pay the tab for childcare?
> Because it's not the main explanation for the diff between Europe and
here.
Probably not. But ignoring it would be a mistake.
-- Luke
> jks
>
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