Stacy Sterling

A member of the Philip Greenspun's Homepage community since March 25, 1999

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March 25, 1999, on Welfare Reform:
It doesn't sound as though you really know much about social workers and what they do. You seem to confuse social workers with eligibility workers in income transfer programs like General Assistance, or TANF. If you're going to broad-brush an entire profession, you ought to find out a bit about it. Most social workers are working on critical issues such as child welfare, chemical dependency treatment, family violence, community development. Even most of those peole working in income tranfer programs came there originally because they thought they could help people and advance the cause of social justice. The american "poverty industry" doesn't exist only to employ a bunch of middle-class professionals -- that's too easy, too pat, too cynical. The average U.S. taxpayer does not believe in giving poor people money or in providing them with the resources necessary to change their economic circumstances. Until that attitude changes, the current system will stay the same. Free meal...