Work requirements for public assistance programs come from a long history of racism in the United States, are ineffective, and are bad for the economy.
Means-tested forms of structural racism, such as requiring a person to work to receive public benefits, depend not only on ineffective, exclusionary, and economically unsound policies but also on damaging and inaccurate narratives rooted in racism and sexism.
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