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Get real! Look to the future, not the past

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  • Heidi Hartmann
  • Barbara Bergmann

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In our response to the points raised by Linda Gordon, Robert Haveman, Betty Reid Mandell, and Gwendolyn Mink, we describe the Help for Working Parents Plan in greater detail, explaining the advantages of the HWP program over both the current welfare system and the proposed Republican welfare plans. We argue that the Help for Working Parents Plan would garner public support by encouraging work through nonpunitive measures, such as guaranteeing child care and health care, benefits that are lacking in many low-wage jobs. We point out that the plan increases, rather than reduces, benefits for at-home parents. We note that the HWP plan would move U.S. welfare policy in a more universalistic direction, by including working parents, near-poor parents, and married parents as well as the poor single mothers currently targeted by AFDC. We suggest that those who believe poor single mothers can get recognition and higher levels of income support for the family care-giving work they provide are unrealistic and misguided.

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  • Heidi Hartmann & Barbara Bergmann, 1995. "Get real! Look to the future, not the past," Feminist Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 1(2), pages 109-119.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:femeco:v:1:y:1995:i:2:p:109-119
    DOI: 10.1080/714042241
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