"Moynihan's assertions were widely, seriously, and, in my view, soundly disputed in a very large literature in the 60s."
I had direct experience with the welfare of the late sixties, as I worked under contract doing maintenance for the Austin Housing Authority, which was the local agency in charge of public housing, including housing projects and section 8 housing.
I painted and repaired project housing, some of which had two generations of welfare recipients living in them, free. I got to overhear a welfare mom teaching her pregnant welfare daughter (who already had 2 kids), not how to get a job or the work ethic, but how to get free housing, get food stamps, get free health care and get a check from the government for each child they produced. How to milk the system.
So, at least at that time, I have personal experience that KryosL's position has some validity. |
