Posted On: 07/31/2016 2:49:56 PM
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this was not good the part encrypted is on page two of the article link at bottom of page.
The Clinton Legacy Is Black Impoverishment—so Why Are We Still Voting for Hillary?
From the crime bill to welfare reform, policies that Bill Clinton enacted—and Hillary Clinton supported—decimated black America.
The War on the Incarcerated
Bill Clinton championed discriminatory laws against formerly incarcerated people that have kept millions of Americans locked in a cycle of poverty and desperation. The Clinton administration eliminated Pell grants for prisoners seeking higher education to prepare for their release, supported laws denying federal financial aid to students with drug convictions, and signed legislation imposing a lifetime ban on welfare and food stamps for anyone convicted of a felony drug offense—an exceptionally harsh provision given the racially biased drug war that was raging in inner cities.
Perhaps most alarming, Bill also made it easier for public housing agencies to deny shelter to anyone with any sort of criminal history (even an arrest without conviction) and championed the “one strike and you’re out” initiative, which meant that families could be evicted from public housing because one member (or a guest) had committed even a minor offense. People released from prison with no money, no job and nowhere to go could no longer return home to their loved ones living in federally assisted housing without placing the entire family at risk of eviction.
Purging “the criminal element” from public housing played well on the evening news, but no provisions were made for individuals and families as they were forced out on the street . By the end of Bill’s presidency, more than half of working-age African-American men in many large urban areas were saddled with criminal records and subject to legalized discrimination in employment, housing, access to education and basic public benefits—relegated to a permanent second-class status eerily reminiscent of Jim Crow.
full three page article
http://www.theroot.com/articles/politics/2016...oting_for/
The Clinton Legacy Is Black Impoverishment—so Why Are We Still Voting for Hillary?
From the crime bill to welfare reform, policies that Bill Clinton enacted—and Hillary Clinton supported—decimated black America.
The War on the Incarcerated
Bill Clinton championed discriminatory laws against formerly incarcerated people that have kept millions of Americans locked in a cycle of poverty and desperation. The Clinton administration eliminated Pell grants for prisoners seeking higher education to prepare for their release, supported laws denying federal financial aid to students with drug convictions, and signed legislation imposing a lifetime ban on welfare and food stamps for anyone convicted of a felony drug offense—an exceptionally harsh provision given the racially biased drug war that was raging in inner cities.
Perhaps most alarming, Bill also made it easier for public housing agencies to deny shelter to anyone with any sort of criminal history (even an arrest without conviction) and championed the “one strike and you’re out” initiative, which meant that families could be evicted from public housing because one member (or a guest) had committed even a minor offense. People released from prison with no money, no job and nowhere to go could no longer return home to their loved ones living in federally assisted housing without placing the entire family at risk of eviction.
Purging “the criminal element” from public housing played well on the evening news, but no provisions were made for individuals and families as they were forced out on the street . By the end of Bill’s presidency, more than half of working-age African-American men in many large urban areas were saddled with criminal records and subject to legalized discrimination in employment, housing, access to education and basic public benefits—relegated to a permanent second-class status eerily reminiscent of Jim Crow.
full three page article
http://www.theroot.com/articles/politics/2016...oting_for/
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