FWIW, SS disability benefits are not the same as SSI.
SS = social security SS disabilty benefits are paid for by SS taxes. SSI = supplemental security income. According to the govt, SSI is a "Federal income supplement program funded by general tax revenues (not Social Security taxes): * It is designed to help aged, blind, and disabled people, who have little or no income; and * It provides cash to meet basic needs for food, clothing, and shelter." Although both are administered by the SS administration, the first is like an insurance program, while the second is a classic example of the "dole." On 8/2/06, Sandwichman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Economist: > Ten years on, America's work-based welfare reforms have succeeded. Goes to show that the writers at the Economist don't read Louis Uchitelle in the NY Times. No mention of "four million missing men". On the one hand, the sky didn't fall after welfare reform. On the other hand, there was a lot of re-arranging of deck chairs -- e.g., the transition from AFDC to SSI disability benefits. Of course, a lot has to do with rhetoric. Those "challenges" could have easily been called "failures" instead and thus the story could plausibly have been written either as "welfare reforms were a qualified success" or "welfare reforms have failed." Since the Economist has an ideology to promote, the "reforms" were a "success". Surprise, surprise. And detergent gets your clothes whiter than white. -- Sandwichman
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