because the embarrassing truth is that welfare reform has resulted in a layer of destitution that echoes poverty in countries like Bangladesh.
.. Recent research finds that because of welfare reform, roughly three million American children live in households with incomes of less than $2 per person per day, a global metric of extreme poverty.
.. There are now more postage stamp collectors in America than there are families collecting cash welfare, and so kids like Hailey grow up in chaotic households in which there is simpy no money.
.. roughly three million American children live in households earning less than $2 per person per day.
.. Rather, let’s build new programs targeting children in particular and drawing from the growing base of evidence of what works.
.. 70 percent of pregnancies among young single women are unplanned