http://www.freakonomics.com/blog/2007/04/25/abortion-and-anti-poverty-in-mexico/
Yo. this is a great idea. Welfare mothers aren't recieving a blank check, they're actually being given money based on how well they're managing their lives:
It's happening in mexican rural areas, with a slow matriculation into the cities, but i think it's a great idea.
To implement something like this in the States would almost be a snap, we have a lot of record keeping in the schools and medical clinics. Setting up the database and tracking of it would be costly, but dollar for dollar this would be a lot better than giving chronic welfare mothers a blank check.
Accountability from the bottom up. Someone call Bill Cosby
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/25/nyregion/25antipoverty.html?ex=1335153600&en=28bc52f07c895460&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss
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