HIUS 157 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: National Welfare Rights Organization, Welfare Rights, Union Representative
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Hius 157 lecture 17 women, welfare, and work: 1980s to present. From arkansas: worked as laundress, role black women in the south largely filled, mother of 6, moved to california 1959 for more opportunities, worked in a commercial laundry, union shop steward. O(cid:272)ial s(cid:272)ie(cid:374)tists i(cid:374) (cid:1005)(cid:1013)(cid:1012)(cid:1004)s poi(cid:374)ted to (cid:858)fe(cid:373)i(cid:374)izatio(cid:374) of po(cid:448)e(cid:396)t(cid:455)(cid:859: correlated with rising divorce rates. Clinton era (1992-2000: cli(cid:374)to(cid:374) p(cid:396)o(cid:373)ised to (cid:862)e(cid:374)d (cid:449)elfa(cid:396)e as (cid:449)e k(cid:374)o(cid:449) it(cid:863, 1996 personal responsibility and work opportunity reconciliation act, returned welfare to the states, replaced aid to families with dependent children (afdc) with temporary aid to. Needy families (tanf: 2-year connective limit, 5 year lifetime limit. Increased earned income tax credit: rewarding poor workers, more recently: rise in reliance of food stamps and disability, due to cuts on welfare, more people apply for other programs. Decline of maternalist logic: all adults expected to earn their own way. Betty friedan, revised: published the second stage 1982.
