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- Title
Motherwork Is Work: A Welfare Warrior Speaks.
- Authors
Gowens, Pat; Pottenger, Kressent
- Abstract
Eventually, she and I started a welfare rights group in Milwaukee among professionals working in anti-poverty jobs. The Reagan administration had just destroyed all work incentives: the $30 plus one third of our work income was no longer allowed to remain clear of the deductions to the welfare check resulting from earned income. In the job search class, I would sneak to the blackboard and use it as an opportunity to teach moms why part-time and/or low-paid employment was a waste of time since all income earned reduced the welfare check dollar for dollar, leaving mothers with a welfare income despite being employed.
- Subjects
PUBLIC welfare; POOR people; WARRIORS; WORKING mothers
- Publication
New Labor Forum (Sage Publications Inc.), 2019, Vol 28, Issue 3, p72
- ISSN
1095-7960
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/1095796018790555