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Mead, L. (1996). The Poverty Debate and Human Nature. In S. W. Carlson-Thies (Ed.), Welfare in America: Christian Perspectives on Policy in Crisis (p. 209). Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company.

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• TITLE: Tainted Policy

  AUTHORS: Joan M. Sakalas

  KEYWORDS: AFDC, Coding, Criminals, Culture of Poverty, Discrimination, Livable Wage, Neo-Darwinism, Neo-Liberalism, Parents, Poverty, Racism, Single Mothers, Underclass, Unmarried Mothers, Welfare

  JOURNAL NAME: Open Journal of Political Science, Vol.4 No.2, April 14, 2014

  ABSTRACT: The article revisits the 1996 revision of “welfare policy” in the United States. Often public policy is written and publicized in glowing terms that describe the wonderful changes we will see in the future. Unfortunately we often uncritically believe projected accomplishments of policy changes to be actual accomplishments. This article documents the gap between reality and publicity. It focuses on the demonization of single mothers and the justification of reduced societal responsibility for those living in poverty and outlines how we might re-envision policy that would be reality based.