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Annelise Orleck

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The Welfare Rights Movement Wanted Society to Value the Work of Child-Rearing

The welfare rights movement of the 1960s and ’70s resisted invasive policies. Their animating vision: that society treat every mother and child with dignity.

by Annelise Orleck, Sasha Lilley via Jacobin on August 17, 2023

Storming Caesar's Palace: How Black Mothers Fought Their Own War On Poverty

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Ruby Duncan standing and addressing a group with Jane Fonda seated behind her on the eve of a protest in 1971.

When the Welfare Rights Movement Was a Powerful Force for Uplifting the Poor

The War on Poverty comes to life in a new book that explores how welfare mothers in Las Vegas built an organizing juggernaut that transformed lives.

by Eleanor J. Bader via The Indypendent on July 10, 2023

A child looks through the wall at the U.S.-Mexico border.

America’s Long War on Children and Families

Trump’s family separation policy belongs to a much longer history of U.S. government forces taking children from families that don't match the American ideal.

by Paul M. Renfro via Boston Review on June 22, 2020

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