Romney is Stigmatizing Mom's, Try Supporting Them
source: http://womensenews.org/story/labor/120809/romney-plays-gender-race-card-cites-welfare-law
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In a July campaign ad, GOP nominee Mitt Romney singled out Obama for easing the rules for welfare, a program that serves mainly single female heads of households.
"President Obama quietly announced a plan to gut welfare reform by dropping work requirements," the ad says. "Under Obama's plan, you wouldn't have to work and wouldn't have to train for a job. They just send you your welfare check and 'welfare to work' goes back to being plain old welfare."
What Romney is attacking is the so-called work waiver that gives states greater flexibility in the way they dispense welfare. Usually the Republicans champion states' rights, but not in this case. Meanwhile, Romney is just wrong. Obama did not introduce such a policy.
After steadily rising for five decades, the share of children born to unmarried women crossed a threshold in 2009, when more than half of all births to women under 30 occurred outside of marriage.
While more black women have children outside of marriage, white women are the fastest growing demographic.
Now that unmarried mothers have become the new normal, one would think that the drive to stigmatize them would ease up. Apparently not!
Read the full story at http://womensenews.org/story/labor/120809/romney-plays-gender-race-card-cites-we...
"President Obama quietly announced a plan to gut welfare reform by dropping work requirements," the ad says. "Under Obama's plan, you wouldn't have to work and wouldn't have to train for a job. They just send you your welfare check and 'welfare to work' goes back to being plain old welfare."
What Romney is attacking is the so-called work waiver that gives states greater flexibility in the way they dispense welfare. Usually the Republicans champion states' rights, but not in this case. Meanwhile, Romney is just wrong. Obama did not introduce such a policy.
After steadily rising for five decades, the share of children born to unmarried women crossed a threshold in 2009, when more than half of all births to women under 30 occurred outside of marriage.
While more black women have children outside of marriage, white women are the fastest growing demographic.
Now that unmarried mothers have become the new normal, one would think that the drive to stigmatize them would ease up. Apparently not!
Read the full story at http://womensenews.org/story/labor/120809/romney-plays-gender-race-card-cites-we...
