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From Welfare to Workfare |
| Section: CURRENT ISSUES / SPECIAL REPORT--IS WELFARE REFORM WORKING? |
| Author: Pete Du Pont |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/2000 |
| Size: 2,156 Words, 13,381 Characters |
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In his 1992 campaign for president, Bill Clinton pledged to "end welfare as we know it." Four years later, President Clinton signed the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, which did indeed usher in a new approach to welfare for the most prominent of all welfare programs, Aid to Families with Dependent Children--the familiar AFDC. Since 1935, welfare had been primarily a system of open-ended government payments to single mothers with dependent children. In the 1960s, the welfare program was expanded as part of Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty and for the first time was referred to as an "entitlement." Federal welfare programs spent $5.4 trillion between 1965 and 1994.
The bill Clinton signed, over the outspoken opposition of many of his liberal support...
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...or mental problems, illiterates, and those with drug and alcohol problems. Some of the states are already trying to assist this hard-core group, but it is unlikely that many of them will ever be able to function without help. What welfare reform seems to have done for people in desperate need is to help identify those individuals, so that assistance can be directed where it is truly needed. vbcrlf
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