Washington's New Poor Law: Welfare "Reform" and the Roads Not Taken, 1935 to the Present

The authors argue that the personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act, popularly known as welfare reform, offers neither work opportunity nor real reform. In repealing the entitlement to welfare and failing to create an entitlement to work - at the same time as it imposes strict, time-limited work requirements - Washington has, in effect, written a new Poor Law.