Keywords
welfare reform, welfare dependency, local government
Abstract
This Essay advocates for community-based efforts to redeem the welfare system. It first discusses the causes of welfare dependency, and the adverse effects of current reform proposals. It then outlines goals for effective welfare reform, and describes the welfare reform program being implemented by the Bedford-Stuyvesant community. It concludes that effective welfare reform requires community initiated programs that focus on remedying factors leading to poverty, best identified and dealt with on a local level.
Recommended Citation
Margo D. Butts,
Urban Welfare Reform: A Community-Based Perspective,
22 Fordham Urb. L.J. 897
(2011).
Available at: https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/ulj/vol22/iss4/3