Freedom to fail: the false flexibility of the president's welfare plan. (Dispatches).
American Prospect, The, April, 2003 by Bennett, Drake
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AS ANY ADVOCATE FOR THE POOR WILL tell you, measuring the success of welfare reform depends on how one defines success. If it's simply a matter of cutting the welfare rolls, the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) program has been the social policy equivalent of winning the space race.
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Between 1995 and 2001, the number of welfare recipients nationwide fell more than 50 percent after having grown steadily for decades. If success means anything broader, however, the record is somewhat less spectacular. Poverty is down and employment in single-parent families is up (no shock ...
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