Savner at the Center for Law and Social Policy and Deborah Har-
ris at the Massachusetts Law Reform Institute deserve enormous
credit for many of the ideas in this book. They provided re-
sources on current state and national policy proposals on wel-
fare reform, as well as constructive suggestions all along the way.
For helpful ongoing discussions on poverty and welfare reform,
we thank Diane Dujon, Nancy Folbre, Marie Kennedy, Mary Las-
sen, Cindy Mann, Ann Withorn, the members of Massachusetts
Academics' Working Group on Poverty, and our students at the
University of Massachusetts at Boston and at Lowell. We also
thank Ed Besozzi, Urska Cvek, Laurie Dougherty, Paula Maher,
Tiffany Manuel, Cheryl Seleski, and Hong Xu for their research
assistance, and Sheila Walsh for her design and production skills.
Our South End Press editors, Cynthia Peters and Lynn Lu, pro-
vided insightful feedback and helped greatly in sharpening and
"packaging" our message. For continued love and support in all
our endeavors, we thank our families, and in particular our soul
mates, Mary Eich and Marie Kennedy.

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