About this series Wisconsin is on the cutting edge of one of the most massive changes in our nation's social policy since the 1930s. After more than a decade of welfare experiments, this is it.
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Over the course of 1997, a series of stories has run in this newspaper about families touched, often dramatically, by welfare reform. Here is how some of those people are doing now. The visiting room of the Fond du Lac County Jail. Tamara Nelson, having skipped dinner and the chance to run home and change out of her work clothes, is seated at a window that opens onto a narrow hallway. W-2 was more of an immaculate conception than a brainchild, to talk with the folks who created it.