Punishing poor people through Welfare

pdriftmier — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 21:00:13 +0000

The Need for a Guaranteed Livable Income

“The dream of a benevolent welfare state may live on in social work theory, conference papers and mission statements, but as far as front-line bureaucracy goes, welfare is dead.” This is the opening line to the recent article “Discipline and punish: Welfare, workfare, and the punishment of the poor”, written by Aleksandra McHugh.

Aleksandra McHugh & Peter Driftmier

Punishing poor people through Welfare