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Guest Commentator

Pat Gowens

Pat Gowens is Director of Welfare Warriors, a 20 year old organization of mothers in poverty, based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. They publish Mother Warriors Voice (www.welfarewarriors.org). Contact: [email protected].

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Guest Commentary

Congress Betrays Both the People and the Constitution

By Pat Gowens Guest Commentator

Congress passed a federal budget that will shake the foundation of our country for years to come. On Feb 1, they voted to drastically reduce income, food, education, and medicine for US youth, infants, elders, caregivers, and people with disabilities. In the same bill Congress slipped in their mandated reevaluation of the experimental welfare bill,…

Congress passed a federal budget that will shake the foundation of our country for years to come. On Feb 1, they voted to drastically reduce income,…

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