Welfare | For Further Discussion

Chapter 1
1. Kathryn Edin and Laura Lein maintain that the majority of welfare recipients they interviewed were planning to leave welfare but could not afford to take the dead-end, minimum wage jobs available to them. James L. Payne argues that welfare recipients have no incentive to give up their carefree welfare “careers,” since they would have to find jobs paying more than $9.18 an hour to equal their earnings from welfare. Which author makes the more convincing argument for the reasons mothers remain on welfare? Why?

2. In their viewpoint, Michael Tanner and...


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