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Page 135 In 1996, when President Clinton promised to âend welfare as we know it,â he indulged in his now legendary parsing of the English language. He was not going to end welfare tout court, just welfare as we know it. But no one questioned whether we as a nation actually did know it, either experientially or theoretically. Certainly speculation ran to what the new conï¬guration would look like; but little attention was paid to its history. What is the welfare we know? The Social Security Act of 1935, the 1944 GI Bill of Rights, the Interstate Highway Act of 1956, all of which have been enormously successful in alleviating poverty through pensions, education, health insurance, and subsidies for construction and jobs, most of which have beneï¬ted white male workers and their families? No. Welfare is a program that enables welfare queens to drive Cadillacs, as Ronald Reagan once asserted. A devious tool pathologizing the black family, as Daniel Patrick Moynihan once implied. The root cause of the âculture of poverty,â which could not be alleviated even when Lyndon Johnson declared a âwar on poverty.â1 In short, under the reign of Cadillac queens lodged in a sick and
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Published: Mar 1, 2000
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