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Article: Let New Hope have a fair shot
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- November 14, 1996
CopyrightCopyright 1996 The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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An ironic and surely unintended consequence of federal welfare
"reform" may be the eradication of the New Hope Project, that
promising Milwaukee experiment in lifting people from poverty to
self-sufficiency through work. The state must not let that come to
pass.
Instead of giving states money to assist poor families on the
basis of need, Congress now give states fixed sums. The federal
money that would have been earmarked for New Hope is now, in effect,
lumped into the sum that goes to Wisconsin. The state should make
things right by passing on that money to the pilot project.
Yes, the state is now instituting its own job-oriented welfare
replacement called Wisconsin Works. But that's all ...