The powerful myth that welfare recipients are couch potatoes or welfare queens has long hindered adequate state funding for the poor, with Republican politicians using this rhetoric to argue for limiting the welfare state.
Instead, the concept of welfare queens originated from the 1962 Reverse Freedom Rides, reflecting a motive against welfare that dates back even before Moynihan's report on Black mothers' economic struggles.
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