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...applaud the Wisconsin department of human services for its tough program of welfare reform [NATION, April 21]. In November 1990, as a single mother with a three-year-old son, I walked into a welfare office. I was self-employed, receiving no child support, and was seeking assistance for a few months until business picked up. I was denied benefits because I owned a car worth $5,000. At the time, I felt the decision was unfair, but I came to be thankful because it made me fight harder to survive. States need to get tough to break the cycle...
...disappointed by your report on Wisconsin's welfare-reform program. It assumes that the goal of welfare reform is simply to reduce the welfare rolls. But should that be Americans' only goal? After all, if the number of recipients is decreased but a significant number of children remain in dire poverty, have we been successful? Families use welfare for many reasons: a terminally ill mother, a father who has lost his job and exhausted his unemployment benefits, a battered wife escaping an abusive relationship. Most of these people use welfare as it was meant to be used, as a temporary...
...stated that under Wisconsin's welfare program, "mothers must go back to work when their youngest child is 12 weeks old." Did we read that correctly? Forget about the mother's regaining her strength or ensuring her child's well-being by breast feeding; forget about the critical mother-child bonding process. Let's just get that woman behind the counter of the discount store (where she will earn less than the licensed child-care provider she'll require). TRACY AND ELIZABETH HODSON Alameda, Calif...
However, Harvard did defeat two strong crews from Wisconsin and Northeastern...
Trent Reznor, one of the most influential People of 1997? Yes, indeed. Heaven does exist. KENNETH KAMINSKI Milwaukee, Wisconsin...