Your cooperation in keeping this game off the shelves of your stores would be a genuine public service.⏤From an official letter from NYC welfare commissioner Stanley Brezenoff to the presidents of 13 national chain stores headquarted in or near NYC.

We are doing everything we can to prevent [the game] from going on the market.⏤NAACP  representative Dr. Emmett Burns.

This is a game we feel [the American people] are better off not knowing about.⏤Luther Starnes, Maryland Welfare Department.

It is clear that the game is a totally biased depiction of the lives of welfare recipients which bears no relation to any kind of reasoned, fair commentary on the welfare system.⏤Kalman Hettleman, head of the Maryland Welfare Department.

Feminist activists are launching a zap action against major retail outlets over the distribution of a Monopoly-like board game called Public Assistance.⏤National NOW Times

We at APWA [now APHSA] headquarters will be doing what we can, in conjunction with our Washington colleagues, to remove the game from the marketplace.⏤From an open letter to all members of the APWA (American Public Welfare Association), including every state and local welfare agency in the United States, from APWA executive director Edward T. Weaver.

REACTIONS TO THE PUBLICATION OF THE ORIGINAL GAME: PUBLIC ASSISTANCE: WHY BOTHER WORKING FOR A LIVING? IN 1980-81:

We didn't invent the welfare game; government liberals did. We just put it in a box.

⏤Bob and Ron