Maine Doubles Down on Welfare Reform Despite Media Backlash

“The welfare hurricane doesn’t just destroy one family; it destroys generations of them,”

Madaline Donnelly, --November 20, 2015

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Mary Mayhew, commissioner of Maine’s Department of Health and Human Services, knows her politics aren’t always popular.
“I can’t stress enough what an attack campaign it has been from the media for four and a half years,” Mayhew said Thursday at an anti-poverty forum in Washington, D.C., hosted by The Heritage Foundation. Then there are the more personalized critiques: “There is a poet, or he calls himself a poet, and he sends me poems all the time,” she added. “They are not nice poems.” More...

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