"Deserving" and "Undeserving" Welfare
Over a decade since the 1996 welfare reform bill, welfare is in the news again. The latest controversy is over laws that seek to limit what welfare recipients can spend money on. This comes shortly after state legislatures passed laws to require drug testing of welfare recipients. These new laws are not a direct attack on what remains of anti-poverty programs in America. Instead, these initiatives allow for both a deserving and an undeserving poor. A moral evaluation of the...
