Reply #184: Yes, the programs needed to be changed, that is true

[Ken Burch]

and the New Left was making that point in 1965.

But the changes needed to be about empowering the poor and listening to them, not just accepting every
Kiwanis Club myth about "welfare mothers" as the received truth.

the welfare "reforms" were not about fighting poverty, they were just about punishing the poor, and that's all they did.