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Boojatta

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Sat Oct-06-07 08:55 PM
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3. The lesson: "work doesn't pay" or "don't have two kids if you earn only $8/hour"?

When the original welfare reform bill was proposed , it contained $100 million for chastity training.

This addition to the welfare reform bill, Ehrenreich notes, reflected the ruling class�s preoccupation with the sexual and social habits of the poor. She also might have added, such a misplaced emphasis purposely ignores the structural economic conditions behind poverty.

Cauthen cites the example of a not-so-hypothetical single mother with two children living in Chicago working full-time at an $8-an-hour job.

The lesson here: Work doesn�t pay.

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