>What's your beef with MDRC?
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>I am very dubious about these studies. First, Manpower Demonstration
>Research Corporation is among the quantoid (and therefore tunnel-visioned)
>of the institutes researching welfare. . . .
It appears to be that they count things...
As always, the issue is what they count, and whether it is countable. For
example, a purely quantitative approach to welfare reform can count the
increased employment among welfare mothers and ignore the decline in parental
supervision that such work demands. In fact, the commodification of child
