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Article Selection
Please list articles that you're considering for your Wikipedia assignment below. Begin to critique these articles and find relevant sources.

Option 1

 * Article title
 * Workfare


 * Article Evaluation
 * The article was incredibly insightful, yet there was room for expansion regarding the foundations of workfare. There was an exceptional amount of information regarding the history of the policy and the sexist and racist ideologies that influenced workfare. The information regarding the criticism of workfare and how it perpetuates poverty are ample. The researchers offer standard and clear outcomes regarding the cycle of poverty that many are victims of due to workfare. Information regarding the philosophy and economic fallacies that workfare was founded on is largely missing due to the article's focus on the material criticisms of workfare. While there is a lot of room for criticism on account of the outcomes of workfare, more information regarding the philosophies and ideal workfare were founded upon could offer context to the failures of workfare.


 * Sources
 * Desmond, Matthew. “Americans Want to Believe Jobs Are the Solution to Poverty. They're Not.” The New York Times. The New York Times, September 11, 2018. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/11/magazine/americans-jobs-poverty-homeless.html.

Option 2

 * Article title
 * The Negro Family: The Case For National Action


 * Article Evaluation
 * The article primarily covers the Moynihan report and its shortcomings. This is done through a primarily racial analysis of the report and how anti-black racism contributed to the support of the report and many of the arguments within the report. Many of the sources from the article are over nine years old. Since then, we have seen a national pandemic sweep the nation. Black women, in particular, have risen as the most educated demographic in the United States and 79% of Black women are the breadwinners in their households. Current events and new research inform much of what the article touches on. There needs to be more recent information regarding the role specifically Black women are carrying in driving households, the economy, and educational attainment. Much of the Moynihan report speaks negatively of a world where the Black family is being led by women. Further, Moynihan argues that a Black matriarchy could lead to the end of Black political progression and family values. Recent research and events would shed much-needed light on this argument and add a contemporary account of the Moynihan report and the depth of its ideas.


 * Sources
 * Partnership, National. “America’s Women and the Wage Gap - National Partnership for Women ...” National Partnership for Women and Families . National Partnership, May 2022. https://www.nationalpartnership.org/our-work/resources/economic-justice/fair-pay/americas-women-and-the-wage-gap.pdf.

Option 3

 * War on poverty
 * Article Evaluation
 * The article primarily covers the intended purpose of the war on poverty. While the idea of the article is impartial, it excludes the fallout of the war on poverty. The criminalization of poverty shortly followed after the declaration of the war on poverty. The criminalization of poverty isn't mentioned at length in this article. An analysis of the criminalization of poverty would offer a critical element to the article's results and aftermath of the war on poverty section. An intersectional analysis of the criminalization of poverty would offer readers an overview of the war on poverty and the aftermath of the war on poverty.
 * The article primarily covers the intended purpose of the war on poverty. While the idea of the article is impartial, it excludes the fallout of the war on poverty. The criminalization of poverty shortly followed after the declaration of the war on poverty. The criminalization of poverty isn't mentioned at length in this article. An analysis of the criminalization of poverty would offer a critical element to the article's results and aftermath of the war on poverty section. An intersectional analysis of the criminalization of poverty would offer readers an overview of the war on poverty and the aftermath of the war on poverty.


 * Sources
 * The Criminalization of Poverty, 99 J. Crim. L. & Criminology 643, 644 (2009) (“Government welfare policies increasingly treat the poor as a criminal class, and the treatment of low-income women as criminals has occurred at all levels of government—federal, state, and local.”); see also State Falsely Penalizes Thousands for Unemployment Benefits Fraud. Now Victims Want Their Money Back, NPR Mich. Radio (Jan. 11, 2017), https://www.michiganradio.org/post/state-falsely-penalizes-thousands-unemployment-benefits-fraud-now-victims-want-their-money-back  (discussing false accusations of benefits fraud caused by the Michigan Integrated Data Automated System).
 * Edelman, Peter B. "Criminalization of Poverty: Much More to Do." Duke LJ Online 69 (2019): 114.

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