|
|
Article: Vice President Gore optimistic blacks will benefit from welfare dismantling. (Albert Gore, Jr.)
- Article from:
- Jet
- Article date:
- March 17, 1997
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1997 Johnson Publishing Co. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
|
Rather than discover a bleak period after the winding down of federal welfare, Vice President Al Gore predicts a new era of economic growth in America which will benefit Blacks, both in the inner cities and rural areas, middle class and poor.
His assessment dismissed the fears that tens of thousands of Blacks will be left without income or jobs after the dismantling of the decades-old welfare system.
He called the old welfare system "a burden and an injustice on many of the families who were trapped in it."
In an exclusive JET interview in his White House office, the vice president emphasized his support for "maintaining the safety net to ...