a Superficial Question about our New Health Czar

[FrenchieCat]

Does anyone know her ethnicity?

I'm just asking because I cannot tell,
although I'm guessing that she is Eurasian.

It isn't important in anyway, but I am biracial,
and it is always interesting information,
and figured that someone here could confirm my best guess.


Nancy-Ann Min DeParle



This is her husband:



who works for the New York Times, and wrote this book



As New York Times reporter Jason DeParle revealed in his book American Dream , it is poverty itself--not a lack of personal responsibility--that is the main reason for single-parent families.

With amazing gall, conservatives have shredded the safety net and then blamed unmarried mothers for their own neglect-the-poor policies.
http://thecommonills.blogspot.com/2005/09/democracy-now-prisoners-during.html


Bill Clinton vowed to "end welfare as we know it" in 1992. Four years later, Congress translated a catchy slogan into a law that sent nine million women and children streaming from the rolls. Did it work? In his definitive book on this unprecedented upheaval in social policy, New York Times reporter and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Jason DeParle follows three women in one extended family to a set of surprising answers.

Cutting between the corridors of Washington and the meanest streets of Milwaukee, DeParle tracks the story from the White House to the local crack house. After twelve years on welfare, Angie, a truculent mother of three, finds a job and a 401 (k)--and a boyfriend who tries to shoot her. Her cousin Jewell, glamorous even in sweatpants, adores the children she struggles to support. Opal combines an antic wit with an appetite for cocaine while the welfare agency that is supposed to help her squanders its millions.

Drawing on more than a decade of reporting, DeParle traces their story back six generations to a common ancestor--a Mississippi slave--and adds politicians, case workers, reformers, and rogues to an epic exploration of America's struggle with poverty and dependency.
http://www.jasondeparle.com/

[babylonsister]

1. She's the child of Chinese immigrants...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=8239466&mesg_id=8239466

First, some biographical background: DeParle is famously reluctant to make an issue out of her upbringing, but friends and colleagues are quick to note that she cares about people facing economic struggle because, as the child of Chinese immigrants in Tennessee, she experienced that life herself. She ended up attending the University of Tennesse, graduating at the top of her class, and winning a Rhodes Scholarship, giving her a degree from Oxford to go along with the one she'd get from Harvard Law School.

[FrenchieCat]

2. So she is 100% Chinese.

Interesting.

Her Husband appears to be worth his keep, from what I can tell.

And she seems to be a welcome sight according to those Health Care proponents.
I just read something somewhere about that.