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Women and Welfare: Organizing for Survival
March 21, 2001
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Since 1996, changes in the U.S. federal welfare law have forced some three million mothers and children off of public assistance. Many politicians are celebrating this reduction. But are reductions in welfare rolls indicative of successful policy? On this program from the National Radio Project's Women's Desk, we ask where have women no longer on the welfare rolls gone? We'll also take a look at how women receiving welfare are organizing themselves.
Featuring:
Taina Gonzalez, Make the Road By Walking; Robin Acree, Grassroots Organizing (GRO); Professor Mimi Abramovitz, School of Social Work at Hunter College; Brenda Stewart, 5th Avenue Committee; Diana Spatz, LIFETIME.
tel: 510-452-5192
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Make the Road By Walking
301 Grove Street
Brooklyn, New York 11237
Grassroots Organizing (GRO)
628 West Love Street
Mexico, Missouri 65265
573-581-8585
gro_justus@maan.com
School of Social Work
Hunter College
129 E. 79th St.
New York, New York 10021
212-452-7106
www.welfare2002.org
5th Avenue Committee
141 5th Avenue
Brooklyn, New York 11217
718-857-2990
LIFETIME
132 E. 12th Street
Oakland, California 94606
510-452-5192