The welfare gap. (Republican Senate has a welfare-reform that will appease the Clinton administration)(Brief Article)
Economist (US), The, September, 1995
END welfare as we know it, pledged Bill Clinton as a candidate for the presidency. Three years later, that promise steps closer to reality. After a deadlocked summer, the Republican Senate has cobbled together a welfare-reform plan that Mr Clinton's White House may be able to live with.
As in the bill passed in March by the House, the Senate version would convert the main welfare programmes (principally, Aid to Families with Dependent Children) into block grants for the states, which could design programmes as they liked. Moreover, welfare costs would be capped. Currently, all who qualify for aid are entitled to receive it. Under Congress's reforms, demand for relief may well exceed the money available when the economy slows.
The Senate's bill, however, is...
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