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Kansas Republicans Continue Their Assault on the Poor With New Punitive Drug Testing Mandates

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Advancing policies for the benefit of the rich, whilst kicking the poor among us in the teeth, is a mainstay of the Republican Party.

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Child Care Increasingly Expensive, Even as Public Assistance for Low-Income Families Declines

If we still need more evidence that reproductive freedom is an economic issue, the challenge of affording child care is ripe for discussion.

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Roundup: Georgia Eliminating State Funds for Domestic Violence Prevention

Georgia will use federal TANF money for domestic violence shelters which could eliminate services for women without children, what do state ant-abortion bills say about women, Arizona enacts more anti-abortion legislation, and Starbucks selling a maternal health benefit CD.

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Women and Welfare: Revisiting Reform in the Wake of Economic Crisis

Coverage of the economic crisis focuses on the fate of the newly poor middle class. But stories about those who were already poor in the “best of times” have been few and far between.

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