Brokaw Whines: Welfare Reform Exacerbating Schism Between Haves and Have Nots

Geoffrey | July 6, 2011
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"But isn't that going to only exacerbate the feeling, especially in the cities in this country, that there is a growing schism between the haves and the have nots because we're going to mandate welfare reform. We're going to mandate a lot of immigration reform but there's going to be no money that comes in behind it."
-- NBC anchor Tom Brokaw on welfare and immigration reform, to New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, March 3, 1997 MSNBC InterNight.