Welfare Policy

Overview

1. What did you know about welfare before reading Chapter 7? Did you associate specific policies or programs with the term?
2. If you could design an anti-poverty program what would the key provision be and how do you make sure it leads to self-sufficiency and not dependency?

Welfare and the Politics of Poverty | Retro Report | The New York Times

Description: Bill Clinton’s 1996 welfare reform was supposed to move needy families off government handouts and onto a path out of poverty. Twenty years later, how has it turned out?

https://www.cbpp.org/research/income-security/increases-in-tanf-cash-benefit-levels-are-critical-to-help-families-meet-0