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Welfare Reform: States Race to the Bottom Staff Vol. 18, No. 1, 1996 pp. 1-2 With the election season looming, and both Clinton and the Congress positioning on the welfare reform debate, agreement on a welfare reform package is now
Texas: Fundamentally Flawed By Patrick Bresette Vol. 18, No. 1, 1996 pp. 2-3 The powerful impetus in Congress to reform this nation’s welfare programs has rapidly degenerated into little more than an ideological contest, but one likely to yield disastrous
Arkansas: Flexibility for Failure By Richard Huddleston Vol. 18, No. 1, 1996 pp. 3-5 Courtesy of the Republican-controlled Congress, welfare reform block grants will soon be coming to Arkansas and other states. States will have unprecedented flexibility to set eligibility
Virginia: Stinginess Amid Wealth By Steven L. Myers Vol. 18, No. 1, 1996 pp. 5-6 Despite its relative wealth, Virginia spends far less to assist its poor citizens, most of whom are children, than most other states. During the 1980s,
Georgia: Scapegoats and Resentments By Marti Keller and Lane Goldberg Vol. 18, No. 1, 1996 p. 6 The rhetoric surrounding the current debate over welfare reform plays on the growing insecurity in the U.S. today, appeals to our desire to
Work First, People Last By Preston Quesenberry Vol. 18, No. 1, 1996 p. 7 In the name of “independence,” and “responsibility,” states around the nation have been implementing “Work First” programs designed to force welfare recipients into the workforce. While
Voting Rights Assault: Heard This Song Before By The Rev. Joseph Lowery Vol. 18, No. 1, 1996 pp. 8-10 In 1964, following the passage of the Public Accommodations Act, I was among a delegation that went with Martin King to
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Black Southern Churches Under Fire By Barry E. Lee Vol. 18, No. 1, 1996 pp. 11-13 Historically, the church has been the “soul of the black community,” says the Reverend Joseph Lowery, president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Since
BOOKS: Freedom’s Light Reviewed by Jacqueline Rouse Vol. 18, No. 1, 1996 pp. 15-16 I’ve Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle by Charles M. Payne (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995, 525 pages).
Anthologizing Appalachia Reviewed by Tal Stanley Vol. 18, No. 1, 1996 pp. 17-18 Appalachia Inside Out. Volume I: Conflict and Change; Volume II: Culture and Custom. Edited by Robert J. Higgs, Ambrose N. Manning, and Jim Wayne Miller. (Knoxville: University