Lost Ground: Welfare Reform, Poverty and Beyond

Norma Buydens

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In the preface to Lost Ground, Barbara Ehrenreich announces the volume's purpose: to expose the racism and misogyny (vii) behind the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 the latest American federal welfare reform in time for the 2002 debate over its reauthorization. Ehrenreich writes of the coded messages stigmatizing welfare recipients as promiscuous African American single mothers, the renewal of the term illegitimacy for nonmarital births, and claims that African American men have been cuckolded by female-headed welfare families (viiviii). But PRWORA is also class warfare in its punitive requirements that any workoffered must be accepted by single mothers on welfare, even i f dangerous, abusive or poorly pa id (ix) and too low paying to take families out of poverty:

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