— Blogger Eve Tushnet (sounds like a porn site, doesn’t it?) writes sagely on welfare reform for her day job:
National Catholic Register —
Eloise Anderson, director of the Program for the American Family at the Claremont Institute, former food-stamp recipient, and former welfare administrator in Wisconsin and California, noted that many people on welfare have a complex set of problems that existing programs are not equipped to handle. Such people, she said, belong in “child protection or mental health or alcohol and drug programs,” not in a welfare office.
Like many observers, Anderson believes the 1996 reforms focused on mothers but not neglected fathers. “There’s a whole slew of programs that are designed to help the custodial parent go to work,” she said. “Those same programs should go the non-custodial parents.”
The next phase of welfare reform will focus on undoing the damage to family structure the system has done for the past three generations, which means we’re just getting started. Link courtesy Ben the Mug Man.