Kids Lose in Reform
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Re “Poverty Study Puts New Wrinkle in Welfare-to-Work Debate,” Aug. 16: Your article on welfare-to-work left out one class of “recipients,” the children. Those with single working mothers can look forward to spending less time with the only live-in parent they have, because their mothers now have to work to make the same income they received on welfare. A job can be beneficial to a parent’s self-esteem, but who is going to raise these children?
That the immediate goal of welfare reform was not to reduce poverty gives the impression that our government is working mostly for itself. Some welfare reform.
Richard Mallery
North Hollywood
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