Last week this article on the lack of support for the poor during this recession “My take on it was the states would push people off and not let them back on, and that’s just what they did,’’ said Peter B. Edelman, a law professor at Georgetown University who resigned from the Clinton administration to protest the law. “It’s been even worse than I thought it would be.”
Yesterday it got worser.* Here is a analysis from the Mass Legal Services, the on-line resource of poverty law advocates. 
’’The House Ways and Means budget proposal would allow the Administration to dramatically restrict access to emergency shelter for homeless families, cut the TAFDC clothing allowance in half, remove the TAFDC $40 rent allowance, make no provision for TAFDC transportation assistance, and bar cash assistance recipients from using their benefits to pay rent and taxes or to buy many basis necessities.
Check this site for updates on amendments over the weekend or next Tuesday at the latest.
*my spell check doesn’t like worser either, so I put it in my dictionary to honor a 3 year old grandchild who would express despair by sobbing “Grammy it’s getting worser and worser.”
