User:Sallyfried/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
This article does an okay job at summarizing what the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act is and the basic consequences of it, however, there is only a small section on its impact on women. There is a very small section on PRWORA's impact on single mothers but does not discuss the consequences on the end of entitlements on women, especially mothers, and does not go into very much detail about work requirements and how that impacts women and mothers on welfare, especially those previously on AFDC benefits after this program turned into TANF. I would like to expand on the consequences of PRWORA on women and its lasting effects that remain today for women on welfare.

Evaluate the article
This article is rated as a c-class article meaning there is work to do on the article to make it more comprehensive and detailed. I will mostly be working on the "Consequences" sub-header of this article where the impacts of PRWORA are discussed. Here I will make a new category about the impacts on women, paying specific attention to the "Single Mother Household" section. I would specifically like to touch on the work requirement aspect of PRWORA, making a new section on how ending entitlements affects women specifically. I would also touch specifically on the transition from AFDC to TANF and how that affects mothers in welfare. Under the "Single Mother Household" section they briefly mention domestic abuse as a consequence of PRWORA but I would like to expand on that and discuss more the impacts of welfare on victims of domestic abuse, especially in regard to work requirements and economic independence/dependence. In addition, I would edit the criticism sub-header of this article and expand on the stereotypes section that discusses the "welfare queen". While the outline of this section is present, I think it could be expanded on. Finally, I will expand the "gendered and racial poverty" section and the "violation of women's constitutional rights" and "discrimination against unmarried women and LGBT women" to make it more thorough and better researched.