home | news | in-depth | analysis | what's new | contents | search Introduction | Background | The New Law | Timeline | Trends Challenges | State Links | State Caseloads | Block Grants President Bill Clinton signed historic welfare reform legislation in the summer of 1996. But it really marked only the beginning of a grand experiment in federalism. Now the states are empowered to create their own welfare programs while trying to move welfare recipients to jobs. Will it work? You will need Macromedia's Shockwave plug-in. We also recommend Netscape 3.0 or Internet Explorer 3.0 with Javascript capabilities enabled. Click here for technical help or to send us feedback. Copyright © 1997 AllPolitics All Rights Reserved. Terms under which this information is provided to you.

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25. Welfare Reform Congress should end all federal funding of welfare, sending responsibility for both welfare programs and tax sources back to the states; and tear down barriers to economic growth and entrepreneurship. From across the political and ideological spectrum, there is now almost universal acknowledgement that the American social welfare system has been a failure. Since the start of the War on Poverty in 1965, the United States has spent more than $5.4 trillion tryi ...

Crunch time for Congress Members act on welfare, health care reform August 1, 1996 Web posted at: 11:30 p.m. EDT WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Pushing to pass legislation before members leave for a monthlong recess, Congress acted on a number of bills Thursday, including sending President Clinton a historic welfare reform bill. With a vote of 78 to 21, the Senate followed the House's lead and passed the final version of the compromise welfare bill. Clinton, who ...

Florida to sue Washington over welfare reform April 22, 1997 Web posted at: 9:39 p.m. EDT (0139 GMT) TALLAHASSEE, Florida (CNN) -- The state of Florida plans to sue the federal government over changes in the welfare system affecting elderly, poor and disabled legal immigrants, becoming the first state to sue over welfare reform. Florida will claim, in the suit to be filed Wednesday in federal court in Miami, that the U.S. government is disproportionately shift ...

Welfare to Work: The Need to Take Place Differences into Account Hal Wolman, Ph.D. Dr. Wolman is a Professor in the College of Urban, Labor and Metropolitan Affairs and in the Department of Political Science at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. He is serving as a visiting policy analyst in the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation through the Intergovernmental Personnel Act. Technical Analysis Paper No. 45 January, 1996 DHHS, quite understanda ...

From the pages of Z Magazine The Gestapo of Welfare Reform By Lucky Jean There is a sinister trend emerging in the area of welfare reform that has gone largely unnoticed by non-poor people: the role of CSD (Children’s Services Department). While CSD is supposed to help children by removing them from abusive and/or neglectful parents, what they have ended up doing in many cases is to define conditions of poverty or voluntary simplicity as "neglect" and demand that parents live a middl ...

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Welfare Reform and Reducing Teen Pregnancy The Public Interest, Winter 2000 Isabel V. Sawhill, Senior Fellow, Economic Studies Program Almost no one thinks it's a good idea for unwed teenagers to become parents. It would be the odd parent, indeed, who counseled their own teenage son or daughter to start a family, Most parents hope that their children will finish school, find a job, and marry before they take on the burdens of parenthood. But what the majority of parents, almost ...

Welfare Reform and the 'Deadbeat Dad' or Unemployed Father? By Cheri Honkala Every morning, across the United States, the hunt begins: Fathers are dragged out of homes, handcuffed and incarcerated. Mothers cry in welfare offices while child-support-enforcement workers demand answers to the dozens of questions as to the whereabouts of the father. Child support is the latest arena in the battle to overhaul America's welfare system. The target being used to make this conquest is the newes ...

State Welfare Reforms Approved Welfare Reforms As reported by the US Department of Health and Human Services June 27, 1996 Arizona Employing and Moving People Off Welfare and Encouraging Responsibility (EMPOWER) Program Statewide, will not increase benefits for additional children conceived while receiving AFDC - limit benefits to adults to 24 months in any 60-month period - allow recipients to deposit up to $200/month (with 50% disregarded) in Individual Development Account ...

Welfare reform's fallout mixed Rolls down sharply, but many struggle, go back on assistance Thursday, December 02, 1999 By Steve Levin, Post-Gazette Staff Writer The good news about Pennsylvania's welfare reform is that through Dec. 31, 1998, the state's welfare caseload had declined 35 percent, with 126,367 adult recipients leaving cash assistance rolls and not returning. That statistic was highlighted in the state Department of Public Welfare's ...

By Freedom Road Socialist Organization Twin Cities/Madison District June 1998 On July 1, 1997 a disaster started unfolding. This disaster is throwing families into the streets and forcing people to go hungry. As the disaster spreads further, thousands will be engaged in slave labor; wages will fall for all working people, especially women and people of color; and the rich will be laughing all the way to the bank. The disaster is welfare reform. It is up to us to stop it. Welfar ...

TWC Front Page Community Agenda Front Page Community Agenda Vol. 1, No. 1 What Are the Key Provisions of Welfare Reform? Federal welfare reform revolutionizes the way America addresses the needs of the poor. States now have the authority to design and implement welfare policies with very few federal requirements. The federal AFDC program is gone, along with its entitlements to cash assistance for needy families. The legislative vehicle that replaced it, called the Temporary Assistance ...