Showing posts with label poverty. Show all posts
Showing posts with label poverty. Show all posts

Thursday, October 28, 2010

Welfare Reform Failing Poor Single Mothers By Melinda Burns


"Stretched Thin,” “Both Hands Tied,” and “The War on Welfare” are three new books that highlight welfare reform’s failure to address the enduring poverty of single mothers and their children."

(1901) William Hooper Councill’s Letter to the White People of Alabama

  Most scholars of today imagine Booker T. Washington as the major accommodationist and black political conservative of the era.  There we...