If you're talking about the narrow issue of public assistance, I would like to see us move to a more healthy system.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Public assistance needs to be changed to a system that is healthier and more sustainable.
- In plain terms
- Welfare systems need to be fixed to be healthier.
- What can you take from it?
- Reform public assistance for better outcomes.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- What makes a system healthy?
- How do we fix welfare?
Another view
Defining a 'healthy' system can be subjective and politically divisive.
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