han other groups because they are more economically successful, though Chang shows that this is largely a myth and ignores the many who do not achieve economic success while a visible minority does.
2. The welfare reform debate now taking place in Congress and across the country is often carried on in the abstract while ignoring the real people who will be affected by any changes. The debate has been framed as "reform," but we usually think of reform not merely as change but as improvement, as an attempt to address problems and to correct them. The effects of what has been proposed as reform, however, may not be a correction or an improvement at all. Barbara Ehrenreich notes that there is a gender component to the debate, which involves largely white males arguing about the fate of women and their offspring:
[T]he welfare mother makes an ideal scapegoat for the imagined sins of womankind in general. She's officially manless, in defiance of the patriarchal norm, just like any brazen executive-class single mother by choice
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