Republicans in two Congressional committees voted last week to press forward with legislation that would deny states the flexibility they requested to help more welfare recipients get jobs.
The "success" of the 1996 "welfare reform" pact between President Clinton and congressional conservatives is an hardy piece of conventional wisdom that you will hear repeated, and usually unchallenged, in the rare times that poverty comes up in the political discourse. more »
usatoday.com — Federal data for the last half of 2007 show welfare rolls rose about 0.6 percent, and 27 states reported increases. That follows a decline of 68 percent since a Cointon-area federal law imposed work requirements, time limits and penalties for recipients who don't follow the rules.
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