Healthcare reform has brought back the right's favorite wedge issue -- government handouts for the "undeserving"
By Ed Kilgore Aug 31, 2009
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It's not that I don't believe in helping others. I just don't believe in giving money to people on the street.
By Cary Tennis
November 26, 2008
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Welfare reform enacted in the prosperous '90s is pushing the first wave of families off public assistance amid today's recession. An expert talks about the consequences.
By Suzy Hansen
February 4, 2002
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The drug war has stamped an entire class of parents as permanently unfit.
By Nell Bernstein
October 25, 2000
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In the debate over Bush's faith-based charity plan, church vs. state is not the issue.
By Arianna Huffington
February 1, 2001
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Clinton's latest anti-poverty moves won't help the jobless who've been lost from the welfare rolls.
By Peter Edelman
January 14, 2000
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Is Bush controversy about character or issues? Plus: Fame and notoriety after 500-man gangbang; ugly Americans in Beirut and Berlin.
Letters to the Editor
September 8, 1999
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Despite the success stories, more families at the bottom are falling apart.
By Nell Bernstein
September 1, 1999
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Does anyone care about the working poor?
By Daryl Lindsey
April 30, 1999
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The Swiss didn't just hang on to Holocaust victims' bank accounts. They used them to bankroll Hitler's war machine.
By Jonathan Broder
July 25, 1997
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A new documentary explores conflict and cooperation between blacks and Jews.
By Lori Leibovich
July 24, 1997
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Welfare reform might just work if the government pays attention to the new strategies being developed on a community level.
By Joan Walsh
December 11, 1996