Blanche Bernstein

Blanche Bernstein (died Jan. 27, 1993) was a welfare expert and controversial commissioner of the New York City Department of Human Resources (1978–1979) at the outset of the administration of Mayor Edward I. Koch. Bernstein was a critic of a system she thought created dependency rather than uplifting welfare recipients, a perspective that was strongly criticized by other experts and welfare advocates, but which prefigured both the Reagan Era attack on welfare and the later reforms under President Bill Clinton. Provided by Wikipedia