Liberal lessons from welfare reform: why welfare-to-work turned out better than we expected. (The Politics).
American Prospect, The, July, 2002 by Jencks, Christopher
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WHEN CONGRESS PASSED THE PERSONAL Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) in 1996, the liberal community was almost unanimous in urging President Clinton to veto it. Even people like myself, who had supported Clinton's earlier efforts to "end welfare as we know it," thought that PRWORA went too far. Fortunately for the poor, the first five years of welfare reform inflicted far less economic pain than we had expected.
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