Category: Class

When people talk about the 1996 welfare reform bill, they tend to focus on the law’s destruction of Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC). And for good reason. According to Danilo Trisi’s analysis of TRIM microdata, extreme poverty among children nearly tripled in the years after the new welfare regime was implemented. But welfare… Continue reading Poor Disabled Children Pushed Off of SSI Because of Welfare Reform Had Horrible Lives

According to the Washington Post, DC is now requiring child care workers to have a college degree: More than a decade after Washington, D.C., set out to create the most comprehensive public preschool system in the country, the city is directing its attention to overhauling the patchwork of programs that serve infants and toddlers. The… Continue reading College Degrees for Child Care?

I was inspired by this piece in the Boston Globe about how the Boomers have ruined everything to go into the Survey of Consumer Finances and see just how well the Boomers are actually doing, at least as far as wealth goes. The answer, as with all things, is that it depends on what class… Continue reading Are Boomers Really Doing Well?

This tweet from Doctor Vox wonderfully underscores a point I’ve been making for years now: liberal discourse politics ensures a permanent erasure of the lower classes. This is so for two reasons: Lower class people, almost by definition, cannot engage in The Discourse. They do not have the education, credentials, or jobs necessary to do… Continue reading How certain liberals permanently erase the working class

Eric Harwood, a 47-year-old man from Henderson, Nevada, has embarked upon a somewhat quixotic quest to draw attention to his desperate plight. Due to a serious physical disability, Harwood was discharged from his locksmithing job of 15 years in August and has been battling with the Social Security Administration to receive disability insurance ever since.… Continue reading The Story of Eric Harwood