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Meet the real people at the sharp end of welfare cuts.
For an awful lot of distressed families, the end of welfare is coinciding with an economic recession exacerbated by acts of terror.
But what the end of welfare means in practice for the startlingly diverse veterans of the rolls remains unclear and sharply contested.
Thus, the election year saw the passage of the first minimum wage increase in five years, the end of welfare as a federal entitlement, and the Kennedy-Kassebaum health-insurance-reform act.
And despite all the rosy scenarios we've been fed -- the end of welfare as we know it, rising tides lifting everybody's yachts -- they're not doing very well at all.
In an era in which policymakers have proclaimed the end of welfare as we know it, the transforming powers of work -- the notion that any job, however menial, gives a life structure and meaning -- are being earnestly preached.
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B1 End of Welfare-to-Psychic Work New York City officials said they were ending an arrangement that guided welfare recipients to jobs with a psychic telephone service.
Mr Osborne has dismissed claims that his benefit reforms mark the end of the welfare state as "shrill, headline-seeking nonsense", arguing instead that they encourage people to work rather than rely on payments.
So food stamps were, in effect, picking up some (but only some) of the hole left by the end of traditional welfare.
The move, which gives the city nine months to complete an appeal, comes at a time of record population in the city's homeless shelters, rising unemployment, and the end of federal welfare benefits for thousands of families.
It marks the end of a welfare state that rested on William Beveridge's central idea that social security was "first and foremost a plan of insurance – of giving in return for contributions benefits up to subsistence levels".
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