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Welfare Reform: President Clintons
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On July 31, the House of Representatives passed welfare reform legislation by a vote of 328 to 101. Earlier that day, President Clinton announced that he planned to sign this harmful legislation into law.
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This month marks the 10th anniversary of the most extraordinary cultural and policy shift in recent American life —the revolution wrought by President Clinton’s signing of a welfare-reform bill in August 1996. Pro-work reforms of welfare had been bubbling up from the states since the early 1990s, but the federal legislation completed a change in philosophy that rippled into the lives of single mothers, changing them dramatically for the better.
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Politically, welfare reform is perhaps the most conspicuous example of how President Clinton adopted – some say co-opted – parts of the Republican agenda. Historically, Democrats had defended the old welfare system against GOP attacks.
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