Competition in the inner city even for fast-food jobs is so great that welfare recipients will have trouble getting them.
Katherine Newman
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High Stakes, Hard Choices
Over the last decade, two important social policies originating on the right have been recast as centrist and adopted nationwide. One is welfare reform, which has pushed (some would say shoved) poor and low-skill parents headlong into the labor market. The other is the turn against “social promotion” and toward high-stakes testing in public schools. […]