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Welfare recipients

Looks good on paper

by Tracie McMillan,

With welfare-to-work, presentation is everything

I am your welfare reform

by Annie Downey,

Welfare as they know it

by Tamika Capers, Mery Mejia, Omar Torres, Sylvia Ruff,

Inhuman services

by Harper’s Staff,

What’s wrong with welfare reform

by Christopher Jencks,

Treating poverty

by Tom Bethell,

Wherein the cure gives rise to the disease

A public charge charges the public

by Bridget Saxon,

Getting on welfare

by Paul Jacobs,

Social work

by Marion K. Sanders,

A profession chasing its tail

I’m on relief

by Harper’s Staff,

Spoiled by prosperity

by S. Miles (Stephen Miles) Bouton,

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