Volume 46, Number 15 · October 7, 1999
The End of Welfare?
By Michael Massing
No Shame in My Game: The Working Poor in the Inner City
by Katherine S. Newman
Russell Sage Foundation/Knopf, 388 pp., $27.95
Just as Communists, radicals, and progressives traveled to Moscow in the 1920s to see socialism being built in one country, so are politicians, policy analysts, and journalists today arriving in Wisconsin to see the welfare state being dismantled. The BBC, the London Observer, and leading Japanese papers have all sent correspondents there. So have most major American news organizations, including The New York Times, whose Jason DeParle has taken up part-time residence in Milwaukee to report on the state's 'workfare' system.
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