November 16, 2000

New Welfare Law Has Failed to Help the Poor

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

To the Editor:

Professor Leslie Lenkowsky of Indiana University claims that "the progress that the poor have been making" in today's economy is due to welfare reform, which "has not been the catastrophe its critics feared." ("Revised Welfare System Calls for New Approach by Grant Makers," Opinion, October 19.)

I don't know the situation in Indiana, but as the executive director of a

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