The ParentsNext welfare program was designed to help disadvantaged parents back into work. In practice, it has been onerous and unforgiving for the mostly single women who have been forced onto it. Clementine Ford reports on the mothers’ resistance that is trying to change the program. 

Guest: Writer and author Clementine Ford.

Background reading:

ParentsNext program not helping single and sole mothers in The Saturday Paper

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