2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Bernie Sanders Slams Clinton for Having Supported Slashing of America's Safety Net [View all]Historic NY
(37,449 posts)for many people.
The 1996 law is generally heralded as a historic, bipartisan success. Welfare rolls have plummeted, and the poverty rate is still lower than it was in 1996, despite the prolonged economic slump. Even in this tough economy, the number of New Yorkers on welfare is about 350,000 a far cry from the 1.1 million (one out of every seven city residents!) on welfare in the mid 90s.
http://nypost.com/2012/08/20/welfare-work-first-still-works-best/
From 19942009, work rates for single mothers rose from 43 percent to 63 percent. Overall labor force participation rose from under 55 percent to more than 60 percent (during a period when labor force participation nationwide declined). In 2011, even after the Great Recession, child poverty in NYC was almost 10 percentage points lower than in 1993, the year before welfare reform started.
Bill de Blasio moves to eliminate workfare in NYC....
http://hotair.com/archives/2014/11/09/bill-de-blasio-moves-to-eliminate-workfare-in-nyc/
He is getting blasted too....