Members of Congress received a letter from Father Fred Kammer. president of Catholic Charities USA. who wrote: The welfare reform proposal before you reflects ignorance and prejudice far more than the experience of this Nations poorest working and welfare families. This bill would end the basic guarantee of protection to our neediest families. and. in the words of Milwaukees Archbishop. Rembert Weakland. OSB. nullify "Americas 60year covenant with its poor children and those who nurture them." It would also punish children born to welfare parents. legal immigrants. and desperately hungry citizens. Welfare reform is acutely needed in this country. reform which is designed genuinely to move people who can do so from welfare to work. Todays proposals are largely a sham designed to appease the ignorant and to pander to our worst prejudices in an election year.
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