By: Kate Giammarise Published: August 22, 2016 Twenty years ago today, President Bill Clinton signed welfare reform into law. The sweeping overhaul was meant to move people from welfare to work and to end what critics saw as a cycle … Continued
From the Kairos Center (https://kairoscenter.org/): Monday, August 22nd marks 20 years since Bill Clinton signed the “Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act.” This historic legislation dismantled the United States’ safety net for poor single mothers and children, replacing it … Continued
Posted at http://www.chn.org/2016/08/22/tanf-at-twenty/#.V7xiCfkrIdU By Deborah Weinstein August 22, 2016 Twenty years ago today, President Bill Clinton signed the law that placed a time limit on cash assistance for poor families with children and required some degree of work, job search, or training … Continued