Welfare Reform | Welfare Reform Should Emphasize Family Unity
Karl Zinsmeister is the editor in chief of the American Enterprise magazine, a bimonthly publication of the American Enterprise Institute, a public policy research organization in Washington, D.C.
Summary: Despite presidential promises to reform welfare, the number of welfare recipients has reached a record high—almost twenty million Americans at an annual cost of hundreds of billions of dollars. Current welfare-reform strategies that mandate public employment will not be effective because welfare recipients lack the skills and work ethic to become productive...
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