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I live in Rhode Island, and always have. Probably always will. I'm a social worker at an HIV/AIDS support & resource center run by a community action program, a hospice volunteer, and a graduate student.

I'm into: puns, napping, snacking, desserts (making & eating), crafting, listening to the same music I listened to in college, birds, and being drug-free and meat-free.

5th February 2012

Quote reblogged from Parasitic with 119 notes

Anyone who thinks welfare recipients do nothing but sit around and cash their checks isn’t familiar with the schedules of Tiffany and many others like her. The welfare reform of the late 1990s put the emphasis on moving recipients from welfare to work and set a lifetime limit on federally-assisted cash payments for many families. Initially recipients are required to go to a job readiness site for a month to get training in resume writing and interview skills and use the computers and fax machines to apply for jobs. The big problem is that when there aren’t many jobs, the system doesn’t work as designed. So Tiffany was assigned to community service in exchange for receiving cash assistance (about $650 a month for her and the children). Her assignment was at the local Salvation Army where she put donated clothing on racks and did whatever else she was asked to do. After several months, she was hired there and went off cash assistance. “But I only worked there a month and a half before they had to let the new people go,” she said.
—

Marian Wright Edelman (via azspot)

The biggest flaw with welfare reform is how it penalizes the poor for not having access to stable work or education that could lead to better employment prospects.

(via karnythia)

Source: The Huffington Post

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