Clinton Wants to Help Families at the Bottom; Will She Change Her Mind on Welfare Reform?

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22. Sorry, no. fail. Sexism? what crap.

In her own words:

Bill & I, along with members of Congress who wanted productive reform, believed that people able to work should work. But we recognize that assistance & incentives were necessary to help people move permanently from welfare to employment & that successfu reform would require large investment in education and training, subsidies for child care and transportation, transitional health care, tax incentives to encourage employers to hire welfare recipients, and tougher child support collection efforts.

The third bill passed by Congress had the support of the majority of the Democrats in the House & Senate. It contained more financial support for moving people to work, offered new money for child care and restored the federal guarantees of food stamps & medical benefits.

The President eventually signed this third bill into law. Even with its flaws, it was a critical first step to reforming our nation's welfare system. I agreed that he should sign it and worked hard to round up votes for its passage.

http://www.ontheissues.org/2008/Hillary_Clinton_Welfare_+_Poverty.htm

TANF has been a disaster. It was a predictable disaster.

In 1996 58.7 percent of children below the poverty line were enrolled in AFDC, while by 2011 only 20.9 percent were getting help from TANF. And this is happening when the United States is already an international outlier in the percentage of children living in poverty.

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http://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/letter-to-hillary-clinton-lets-talk-about-poverty