If You’re Poor, Tighten Those Chastity Belts
5th October 2007
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This is a cross post from the Firedoglake blog.
Barbara Ehrenreich, who has spent a lifetime championing working people and the decent-paying wages, affordable health care and secure pensions they deserve, made the following observation:
When the original welfare reform bill was proposed [in the mid-1990s], it contained $100 million for chastity training.
This addition to the welfare reform bill, Ehrenreich notes, reflected the ruling class's preoccupation with the sexual and social habits of the poor. She also might have added, such a misplaced emphasis purposely ignores the structural economic conditions behind poverty.