Keeping women poor - the GOP/Conservative male agenda

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Keeping women poor

Maureen Lane, co-director of Welfare Rights Initiative at Hunter College, has an article at Alternet (via TomPaine) about how the Department of Health and Human Services’ handling of welfare programs is keeping women poor.

After moving from welfare while working on my college degree, I can testify to the positive impact that education has had in my own life. As co-director of Welfare Rights Initiative at Hunter College in New York, every day I see the tremendous results that college produces in the lives of students now receiving public assistance. It's challenging work juggling a serious course load, family responsibilities and the bureaucratic demands of the welfare system, but the powerful permanent effect on the lives of entire families is well worth it.

Yet under a mandate from Congress' Deficit Reduction Act -- passed last year -- HHS has acted to further restrict educational opportunity.


Related: Don't forget that the Bush administration would rather see women married than with a job.

http://www.alternet.org/workplace/39176/

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1. I've said for a long time

that REAL, worthwhile welfare reform would've tied the program with quality educational opportunities--and I'm not talking rinky-dink "business" colleges.

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2. The Neocon male agenda is to financially enslave everyone else

so they have no choice other than to maintain a Neocon economy and work inside what they are trying to implement as a feudal system.

The Neocon, wealthy, racist, misogynistic males continue to revealed they are deluded enough to think they are more entitled than everyone else and expose to us through actions by the US and even Israel, that they have quite a horrific agenda for everyone else in their very narrow minds.

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3. They send them to the 2 year or less schools because

those are the same schools they bring their chosen future Republicans to. That's why all the administration staff is incompetant...Jeff Gannon's only credential to be a reporter was a seminar with a Right-Wing workshop jobber...handing out quick degrees...they really don't believe in education, just certification...

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4. Good point that they don't believe in education really, just certification

Thanks for posting.

[Mythsaje]

5. Right...

licensed stupidity is MUCH better than unlicensed reason.

Otherwise they might end up liberal.

[EC]

6. exactly... n/t

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7. "An ignorant populace is a docile and vulnerable populace"

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8. In the nicest way possible: what does this have to do with women?

It seems this issue affects each gender equally.

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9. Perhaps you're not a woman, or a woman who understand what its

like to be payed less because you are a women.

Some women have had the luxury of not having to experience financial anxiety or discrimination because they haven't worked outside the household. Although there can certainly be discrimination and/or money witheld from women who work at home as mothers and wives.