Mon 23 Feb, 2009

Welfare, unwed mothers, and absent fathers

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This post is about single-parent families and the role of welfare. Like the last post, it was inspired by a comment on an earlier entry, and aims to debunk a few common myths.

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Fri 6 Feb, 2009

Stereotypes about blacks and welfare persist

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A new study suggests that even in the aftermath of the welfare reform of the 1990s and the resulting disappearance of welfare as a hot-button political issue tied to race, attitudes of white Americans towards welfare are still heavily influenced by negative stereotypes about blacks.

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