Showing posts with label welfare accountability poverty mexico freakonomics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label welfare accountability poverty mexico freakonomics. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 25, 2007

workfare for the whole family

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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