Work Requirements Are (Socially) Toxic Sludge
Work requirements for anti-poverty programs don’t encourage work. Instead, their principal effect is stripping people of the benefits they rely on to survive.
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Anthony Barrows is a managing director at ideas42. Anthony has worked more than ten years in the public and non-profit child welfare sphere in direct service, supervision, training, advocacy, project management and system improvement. Anthony holds a B.A. in Philosophy and Art from the University Massachusetts-Boston, an MFA in Printmaking from the San Francisco Art Institute, and an MPA from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, where he was a Gleitsman Fellow at the Center for Public Leadership.
Work requirements for anti-poverty programs don’t encourage work. Instead, their principal effect is stripping people of the benefits they rely on to survive.
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