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- <title>
- Mar. 12, 1990: American Notes:Massachusetts
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Mar. 12, 1990 Soviet Disunion
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 25
- American Notes
- MASSACHUSETTS
- Poor People's Campaign
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> Instead of soliciting checks from millionaire contributors,
- this candidate for Governor of Massachusetts cashes a $486
- welfare check every month. Dorothy Stevens, 48, a single mother
- of four who has spent most of her life on welfare, announced her
- bid for the Democratic nomination last week. Her platform: a
- $10-an-hour minimum wage, universal child care and higher
- payments for families on public assistance.
- </p>
- <p> Stevens is part of a national trend: the Detroit-based
- Welfare Rights Organization says similar candidates will run
- this fall in the Oakland mayoral race and legislative contests
- in Michigan and Maryland. A veteran welfare-rights lobbyist who
- earned a college degree in human-services planning, Stevens
- expects to be included in candidate debates and get equal radio
- and TV time. "We have homeless people fighting every day for
- food and shelter," she says. "Someone has to speak for them.
- That's what I intend to do."
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- </body>
- </article>
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