The People Left Behind When Only the 'Deserving' Poor Get Help
By Annie Lowrey
May 25, 2017 at 12:06PM
via The Atlantic http://ift.tt/2qUUoMh
«"There's this fallacy that these people are just lazy, or they don't care, and that by taking help away, they will be empowered to move off of welfare into employment," said Robyn Merrill, the executive director of Maine Equal Justice Partners, a nonprofit legal-aid provider. "But there are barriers. There are things that stand in the way, whether it's affordable child care or transportation or needing more education or training. We aren't doing anything about those things."»