Marianne: why is SSI under heavy attack from the Wall Street Journal? (I haven't been reading it.) It's been a pretty uncontroversial program since the 1970s. (It was first detested by the southern congressional delegation in the 1930s, then was greatly enhanced in the only part of the Nixon welfare reform bill that passed in 1971. The federal takeover and higher guaranteed incomes of SSI that started at this time didn't even bother the southerners.) Thanks -- Elaine McCrate emccrate @ uvmvm.uvm.edu
