Incredible piece. The contrast between Clinton's win feeling like relief for organizers versus lived indifference for the kid captures something huge. Welfare reform getting dismantled in Arkansas through direct action rather than policy debate is the lesson that keeps getting forgotten. I've seen this pattern repeat where benefits programs designed to demean rather than support collapse once reciepients organize around what was actualy promised, forcing the system to either deliver or admit its punitiveness.
Thank you. There are so many lessons to be learned for the moment we are entering here in America. People are about to face these same challenges again as a result of the big beautiful bill and changes it made to various benefit programs.
Incredible piece. The contrast between Clinton's win feeling like relief for organizers versus lived indifference for the kid captures something huge. Welfare reform getting dismantled in Arkansas through direct action rather than policy debate is the lesson that keeps getting forgotten. I've seen this pattern repeat where benefits programs designed to demean rather than support collapse once reciepients organize around what was actualy promised, forcing the system to either deliver or admit its punitiveness.
Thank you. There are so many lessons to be learned for the moment we are entering here in America. People are about to face these same challenges again as a result of the big beautiful bill and changes it made to various benefit programs.