Lemon squeezer.

AuthorPeters, Charles
PositionTilting at Windmills

Another example of the kind of "what happens after the bill passed" reporting that I admire comes from the Charleston Gazette, which has looked at what happened to a program to provide cars to people trying to get off welfare and go to work. The purpose is laudable. Practically every study of welfare recipients has shown that lack of transportation is a serious obstacle to their getting and holding jobs.

In West Virginia, the reporters found that the program is working just as intended for some people, but they also found that quite a few of "the state's poorest citizens received cars with seat belts that...

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