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Medicaid: Welfare Program Of Last Resort, Or Safety Net?, Laura D. Hermer
Medicaid: Welfare Program Of Last Resort, Or Safety Net?, Laura D. Hermer
Mitchell Hamline Law Review
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A Truly Good Work: Turning To Restorative Justice For Answers To The Welfare-To-Work Dilemma, Marie Failinger
A Truly Good Work: Turning To Restorative Justice For Answers To The Welfare-To-Work Dilemma, Marie Failinger
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U.S. welfare programs have traditionally come with strings attached: recipients must work for their benefits. I argue that there is a more practical and less morally repugnant way to marry work and welfare if proponents of work as well as their opponents would be willing to give up the unrealistic expectations they have placed on state-run public assistance programs, and define a clear and limited relationship between work and need for economically vulnerable people. Just as it has offered an alternative to both the pure retributivist and rehabilitation models in the area of criminal corrections, the principles and practices of …