Welfare Reform: American Mothers Living in Poverty
Title: Welfare Reform: American Mothers Living in Poverty
Category: /Social Sciences
Details: Words: 2745 | Pages: 10 (approximately 235 words/page)
Welfare Reform: American Mothers Living in Poverty
Category: /Social Sciences
Details: Words: 2745 | Pages: 10 (approximately 235 words/page)
Emily Lieberman
November 24, 2004
Soc. 250
American Mothers Living in Poverty
Welfare reform in the United States has been hailed as a great success. In an analysis prepared by the Clinton administration's office of Management and Budget, it was found that single mothers living in the poorest forty percent of U.S. household incomes received a total of $4 billion less in welfare income in 1997 than in 1993, after making an adjustment for inflation. Figures quoted said that earned
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