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The Education of Jessica Rivera
Phillips-Fein, Kim | November 25, 2002 issue

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The article focuses on issues related to the effects of welfare reform on college students in the U.S. The basic presumption behind welfare reform is the unfavorable moral logic of the workhouse. Recipients of the welfare reform are poor because they lack the discipline to hold down a job. But women who are struggling to seize hold of a little bit of upward mobility feel like they work all the time. The long hours of work would have made it nearly impossible for them to continue college as full-time students.

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PUBLIC welfare; FEDERAL aid to higher education; FEDERAL aid to education; EDUCATION -- Finance; EDUCATION & state; COLLEGE students; UNIVERSITIES & colleges; UNITED States
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