Welfare Reform: Rhetoric and Reality

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Clients and advocates know all too well the disparity between welfare programs’ rhetoric and reality. The National Center on Poverty Law’s Let’s Get It Right! project seeks to highlight this discrepancy and thus minimize it. Three issues of particular concern are education and training programs, child care difficulties, and improper termination of benefits to which clients remain entitled

By Audra Wilson From January - February 2001