Word: besharov
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...best way to get welfare recipients into private-sector jobs is to subject them to strict work requirements. Also, conservatives doubt that billions of dollars in government programs are needed to prepare the hard to serve for work. "There's a great irony to that argument," says Douglas Besharov, a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. "Welfare reform has already accomplished a 40%-to-50% decline in the rolls without spending money on job training...
...issued a mere three years from now, to university admissions policies to the way civil rights laws are enforced. Even more important, it may ultimately transform the way Americans identify themselves and the tribe or tribes they belong to. In one grandiose vision , shared by conservative analyst Douglas Besharov of the American Enterprise Institute and communitarian sociologist Amitai Etzioni of American University, the ambiguous racial identity of mixed-race children may be "the best hope for the future of American race relations," as Besharov puts it. Letting people define themselves as multiracial, Etzioni argues, "has the potential to soften...
Source: Douglas J. Besharov, Timothy S. Sullivan...
What will become of the poor in Gingrich's brave new world? It is the welfare programs themselves that he sees as the problem. Conservative welfare expert Douglas Besharov describes the current system as "a culture of entitlement that has undermined traditional values of education, work and marriage." Gingrich, in his interview with TIME, put it more starkly: "What kind of safety net is it that destroys you? You have a man-eating safety net and a child-eating safety...
...limits on the number of years a welfare recipient can draw payments, the G.O.P. is testing the theory that if the poor know they are not automatically getting payments, they will lift themselves out of poverty. Democrats warn that, with caps and limits, the poor will be devastated. Counters Besharov: "Do a lot of states have Governors who want mothers sleeping on grates? No." Could it be that giving the poor less is a way of giving them more? Daniel Bell, professor emeritus of sociology at Harvard, speaks for the skeptics: "These things have real cultural roots. They take generational...