Frances Fox Piven
Frances Fox Piven is coauthor of Regulating the Poor (Vintage). She teaches at the graduate school of the City University of New York.
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Why Welfare Reform Is An Attack On All Women
What is being proposed under the title “welfare reform” is cuts in programs for the poorest and most vulnerable members of American society: nutritional programs and Medicaid programs and housing programs and programs for the aged, impoverished, and disabled. But the program that is most targeted for reform is Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), a program for poor mothers and their children. Men can get benefits, too, but the overwhelming majority of parents on AFDC are women, about five million of them, with about nine million children.
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