Word: marmor
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...workplace" within two years. New Jersey Governor Jim Florio denounces the current welfare system as "morally bankrupt." Many state governments, meanwhile, are slashing benefits and throwing thousands off the rolls. "America has moved from a war on poverty to a war on the poor," says Yale University professor Theodore Marmor, co-author of America's Misunderstood Welfare State...
...have always been willing to help the genuinely needy. But there is growing resistance to the notion of giving money unconditionally to able-bodied adults -- and an insistence on mutual obligation as the only fair basis for public aid. "There's a deep-running stream in American life," says Marmor, "that comes out a fundamental belief in individual responsibility, in the concept that you earn your...
...Chicago economics professor Gary Becker. "The controversy is over magnitude." But some critics charge that Thompson's policies -- which basically seek to force welfare recipients to learn, work and wed -- smack of Big Brotherism. They also accuse the Governor of oversimplifying poverty and human motivation. Changing behavior, notes Theodore Marmor, a political science professor at Yale, "is a lot more complex than simpleminded microeconomics." Some even sense a veiled racism. "It's no longer permissible to make direct appeals based on race," says Mark Greenberg, senior staff attorney of the Center for Law and Social Policy, but "making the attack...