How can they be queens when they got no jewels?

Check out the brief but good article from the Village Voice, “Where The Welfare Queens Went”, a simple reminder of the failure of our current welfare reform system. Jarret Murphy writes:
“The people who left AFDC could be different from the folks who’ve recently enrolled in SSI or Food Stamps. And even if they are the same people, getting Food Stamps or SSI might be an improvement over receiving AFDC. But it doesn’t seem like the ‘self-sufficiency’ the White House boasts about. It seems like welfare reform has done no better than welfare at curing the underlying problem, which, once upon a time, was called ‘poverty.'”