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Welfare's True Colors
Delgado, Gary | October 28, 2002 issue

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The article offers observations on the failures of the U.S. welfare system. Devolution or the defederalization of public assistance programs rolled back the protections and standards in the welfare offices by organizing efforts in the 1960s and in the courts by poverty lawyers working to increase access to benefits for poor people of color. Welfare reforms compounded and institutionalized racial inequality , in which the whites were more likely to receive government help after leaving public assistance than their African-American or Latino counterparts. Systematic discrimination in the labor market is also ignored by the current welfare policy, in which unemployment rates of African-Americans doubled that of the whites.

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PUBLIC welfare -- United States; PUBLIC welfare policy; EQUALITY; RACISM; RACE discrimination; UNEMPLOYMENT; MINORITIES -- United States; UNITED States
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