States Shifting Welfare Control to McDonald's

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> More States Shifting Welfare Control to McDonald's

>

> http://www.theonion.com/onion3218/mcdonaldswelfare.html

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> CHICAGO—For the past four years, the first of the month meant one

> thing to Chicago single mother LaTonya Mitchell: It was the day she

> could cash her monthly welfare check for $618—barely enough to

cover

> her own expenses, much less purchase clothes, school supplies and

> double cheeseburgers for her five children.

>

> But all that changed on Oct. 20, 1997. In a welfare-privatization

> experiment closely watched across the U.S., the Illinois