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Poverty and Resistance: Welfare Reform
February 18, 1998
The US Department of Health and Human Services estimates that 11 million families will have their welfare benefits reduced as a result of the so-called Welfare Reform Bill. On this program, we explore recent changes to US Public Assistance Programs and what poverty activists around the country are doing to support themselves and their communities.
Featuring:
Charles Head, Department of Energy; Jackie Cabaso, Western States Legal Foundation; Lauro Silva, Deputy City Attorney of Santa Fe, New Mexico; Philip Klasky, Bay Area Nuclear Waste Coalition; Myla Reson, Citizen’s for Alternatives to Radioactive Dumping.