MB Civic

Pollitt on how the political footballs of the 90’s are doing these days ..

If the boom years failed to lift poor mothers into the middle class, how are they faring now that the middle class is becoming the new poor? .. Sharon Hays, author of Flat Broke With Children: Women in the Age of Welfare Reform, writes in an e-mail, “They get by in the same way the poor of New Orleans and Haiti are getting by, by cobbling together every available source of aid and support, and then trying to learn how to adjust to constant suffering and insecurity

ahh the Clinton years .. NAFTA, the Telecommunications Bill, no more Glass Steagall, Welfare “Reform” .. good times – mab .. read more