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How a Democrat Killed Welfare
Bill Clinton gutted welfare and criminalized the poor, all while funneling more money into the carceral state.
Premilla Nadasen is a historian and the author of Household Workers Unite: The Untold Story of African American Women Who Built a Movement.
Bill Clinton gutted welfare and criminalized the poor, all while funneling more money into the carceral state.
The domestic workers who asserted their rights in the 1970s provide a model for organizing workers today.