Prometheus 6

George Will, Too, Is Unchanged By Welfare Reform
Copyright © 2004
Earl Dunovant

Let me get this out of the way. I’m a progressive, a
liberal, whatever you want to call it. I’m one of those
people that think about public policy. As such, I’ve had to
find conservatives whose basic integrity I could respect. George
Will has been in that group of representatives of the right for
some time. Today, though, I find myself disheartened by his
editorial, "http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35656-2004Dec29.html?nav=rss_opinion/opeds">
Unchanged by Welfare Reform. It purports to be about Jason
DeParle's book, "American Dream: Three Women, Ten Kids and a
Nation's Drive to End Welfare." He calls it a “riveting
drama”…perhaps he got so engrossed in the drama of
those everyday lives he missed the point of the book.