The Original 'Welfare Queen'

Published: June 5, 2019, 4:01 a.m.

b'It\'s a pernicious stereotype, but it was coined in reference to a real woman named Linda Taylor. But her misdeeds were far more numerous and darker than welfare fraud. This week: how politicians used one outlier\'s story to turn the public against government programs for the poor.

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