Word: bane
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Earlier this month, Mary Jo Bane, assistant secretary for families and children at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), announced that she was resigning from her post. Bane, a former Kennedy School professor, claimed that she was stepping down to protest President Clinton's signing of the recent welfare bill...
...Mary Jo Bane has been one of the nation's most reasoned voices in the tumultuous rhetorical battles over the future of welfare policy. Her book, Poor Support: Poverty and the American Family, written with David T. Ellwood '75, the current academic dean of the Kennedy School, is a staple in almost any class about poverty and social programs. This book soundly refutes the claims of many conservative ideologues who seek to scapegoat the poor and blame welfare for a national decline in morality. Her decision to resign along with Peter B. Edelman, another assistant secretary who is leaving...
...Mary Jo Bane's principled resignation represents the best spirit of public service, and it reflects very well on the Kennedy School that it was her home. We hope it will be her home again...
...Mary Jo Bane may be a great scholar on welfare reform. But in scolding President Clinton for signing the recent welfare bill, both Bane and the staff misdirect their hostility...
Last week, Health and Human Services executive Mary Jo Bane resigned her post and speculation swirled that she will return to Harvard...