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Ronald Reagan (left) during his 1976 presidential campaign, where he popularized the term "Welfare queen" is a derogatory term used in the United States to describe individuals who are perceived to misuse or abuse the welfare system, often through fraudulent means, child endangerment, or manipulation.
Linda Taylor (born Martha Louise White; c. January 1926 – April 18, 2002) was an American woman who committed extensive welfare fraud and, after the publication of an article in the Chicago Tribune in fall 1974, became identified as the "welfare queen".
Ronald Reagan's oft-repeated story of a welfare queen from Chicago's South Side became part of a larger discourse on welfare reform. [ 7 ] Republican governor Tommy Thompson began instituting welfare reform in Wisconsin during his governorship in the late-1980s and early-1990s.
When he worked for the Reagan Administration, Thomas said all civil rights leaders do is “bitch, bitch, bitch, ... Thomas, not his sister, is the “true welfare queen. ...
Ronald Reagan (1981-89) What happened to welfare. The election of Ronald Reagan signaled the start of a new economic era defined by trickle-down economics, deregulation and massive tax cuts that ...
Guinier was dubbed a "quota queen," a phrase first used in a Wall Street Journal op-ed by Clint Bolick, a Reagan-era U.S. Justice Department official. [16] The term was perceived by some to be racially loaded, combining the "welfare queen" stereotype with "quota," a buzzword used to challenge affirmative action.
According to Reagan, the welfare queen, typically Black, “used 80 names, 30 addresses, 15 telephone numbers to collect food stamps, Social Security, veterans’ benefits for four nonexistent ...
Reagan's campaigns used racially coded rhetoric, making attacks on the "welfare state" and leveraging resentment towards affirmative action. [ 147 ] [ 148 ] Dan Carter explains how "Reagan showed that he could use coded language with the best of them, lambasting welfare queens , busing , and affirmative action as the need arose". [ 149 ]