> Most of the jobs taken by former claimants are poorly paid, but in general they are doing somewhat better than when they were on welfare. ...and that's something to strive for: "doing somewhat better than when they were on welfare."
On 8/2/06, Leigh Meyers wrote:
Does that "somewhat better" include the loss of medical coverage, and FWIW, the shitty "child-care" that's provided to transitioning clients of welfare-to-work? Have they included in their figures the ineligiblity to receive the monthy allotment of gub'ment cheeze and boxes of mac 'n cheeze manufactured by companies no one has EVER heard of? Peanut butter from India that's half vegetable oil (hopefully vegetal), and that oil is floating on top of what appears to be peanut... mush? As usual, the answers are not forthcoming...
the editorial does refer to a longer article in the ECONOMIST. Maybe that's where the answers are. -- Jim Devine / "These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people." -- Abraham Lincoln
