ABSTRACT
As Congress took up welfare reform in 1995, a group of feminist welfare scholars joined with activists and other advocates to form the Women's Committee of One Hundred. In this statement, printed as an ad in the New York Times, the Women's Committee attributes women's poverty to society's undervaluing of women's work inside and outside the home, defends poor single mothers' rights, deplores punitive policies, and demands welfare policies that would enable poor single mothers to escape poverty through generous income support for all families and services to improve their earning power.
