Congress's welfare cheats. (Congressional Republicans' 1995 welfare reform bill)(Editorial)
Economist (US), The, October, 1995
The Republican-controlled Congress's effort to restructure the US welfare system includes several laudable idea, such as devolving the power over welfare to the states, but the 1995 bill lacks funds to implement changes. It makes no economic sense to reduce the budget deficit through welfare cuts.
THIS week, America's Congress again took up what will probably prove the year's most momentous task. On Tuesday senators and congressmen sat down across a bargaining table to fix America's dismally dysfunctional welfare (anti-poverty) system. The reform bills at hand, unlike many of the Republicans' schemes, are genuinely radical: they would revoke the 60-year-old nationalised system of support for needy families, and instead give the states money with which to design...
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