This lie is preposterous. The women and their children being cut off won't be thanking Clinton, Dole and Congress for starving them. But Big Business will. At a time of soaring profits for corporations, these cuts will help to make them even richer while creating more suffering for working people. Pushing large numbers of people off of welfare will create a larger pool of desperate people willing to work for low wages and will consequently drive down the wages of those who do have jobs.
Women are the fastest growing group to be incarcerated, especially women of color.
The majority of these women are jailed for crimes of survival. The real crime is the attacks on poor and working people. The crime is eliminating federal entitlements and cash assistance for workers who have been discarded by big business. These entitlements were won by workers who demanded them in the streets 60 years ago. In 1935, three city-wide general strikes, food riots by hungry workers, and marches and struggles by the unemployed forced Roosevelt to sign the Social Security Act that provided for welfare and unemployment.