As a direct result of the 1995 welfare reform legislation, some metropolitan areas relocated women on their welfare rolls through a process called “Greyhound therapy.” Many of these women ended up in rural areas that were not only unprepared to meet their specific needs but also not receptive to their presence. This article tells the story of these women, who were moved almost two hundred miles from a large Pennsylvania city to a small town in a rural region.
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