Tag Archives: Poverty
On giving and misgivings
TweetNot long ago, I was making my way home from Manhattan to Queens after meeting a friend for dinner. In the passage way between the 4-5-6 trains and the 7 train was a young woman, sitting with her back against the wall, with a backpack beside her. Against her legs she had propped a sign: [...]
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Welfare reform at 15: a failed safety net
TweetThe Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program was enacted in August 1996 to replace AFDC as the national welfare program. A new report from Legal Momentum outlines the crippling of the safety net for the poorest and most in need people in the US: Program enrollment has declined from four-fifths of eligible families pre-reform [...]
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Not Oprah’s Book Club: The Other Wes Moore
TweetThe Jon Bennet Ramsey case blew up while I was a teenager in Colorado Springs, Colorado. I remember how the nightly news was filled with story after story of the search for the little beauty queen, and then endless months of criminal investigation coverage. But I remember even more vividly, how I read a tiny, [...]
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Woman convicted of vehicular homicide for crossing the street to get home from bus stop