hi journalists, teachers, friends et al. it is I with some book recs! there’s a lot of great historical scholarship to help contextualize news like proposed Medicaid work requirements, the food stamp blue apron box (?!) proposal, etc. here is a thread with a few starting points: Michael Katz, The Undeserving Poor, is classic overview of tendency to divide the poor into more or less “worthy” of aid: global.oup.com/academic/produ… here’s an article version: berfrois.com/2014/01/michae…