Working on Welfare

Report Outline
The Underclass, Welfare and Work
‘Losing Ground’ in the War
Work Obligation seen Necessary
Special Focus

The Underclass, Welfare and Work

Scenes from a ghetto.

Scene One:

Alice Sondra Jackson, a 23-year-old unmarried mother, living in Newark, N.J., and pregnant with her third child, tells journalist Bill Moyers: “I don't think I would have had the second two children, if I didn't think welfare was there, 1 don't like welfare because it makes me lazy.”