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<text id=92TT0230>
<title>
Feb. 03, 1992: American Notes:Welfare
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
Feb. 03, 1992 The Fraying Of America
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
NATION, Page 25
American Notes
WELFARE
Carrots and Sticks
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<p> Tough love or tough luck. That's the choice that New Jersey
welfare families faced after Governor Jim Florio signed a bill
intended to get aid recipients out of the home and into the job
market. The Family Development Act will eliminate extra payments
to women who have additional children while on welfare and will
require welfare parents to take part in job-training and
education programs. At the same time, it will allow working
mothers to earn up to 50% of their welfare-grant level with no
loss in benefits. And in a reversal of previous rules, the act
will allow welfare mothers to marry without losing their
benefits. The law was drafted by Democratic Assemblyman Wayne
Bryant, a black lawyer from Camden, who calls welfare
"tantamount to slavery" because it fosters dependency.
</p>
<p> The act is the latest in a wave of welfare reforms enacted
or proposed by budget-strapped states. But New Jersey's law is
the first to freeze grants for additional children, which
effectively eliminates a $64-a-month aid increase. Critics say
the sum is too small to affect a woman's childbearing decisions
and that the main result will be more hunger for the kids.
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