What does Minnesota know? (Correspondence).(Brief Article)

DAVE HAGE WRITES THAT Oregon "earns high marks in national evaluations for promoting work and reducing poverty" ["What Does Minnesota Know?" TAP, Summer 2002]. Nothing could be further from the truth. First, Oregon has never been lauded for reducing poverty. The state has more poor than ever, with the poverty rate declining slightly only during the peak of the last economic boom.

And Oregon's welfare agency publicly disavows poverty reduction as its job. Second, Hage relies on a national evaluation from the 1990s of Portland's welfare program, yet he ...

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