“If the goal was to get rid of poverty, we failed”: the legacy of the 1996 welfare reform http://bit.ly/28IW8C6

http://bit.ly/28IW8C6 Presidents are usually effusive, grandiose, and triumphant when they sign major legislation that will form a huge part of their legacy. In 1996, Bill Clinton’s announcement that he’d sign a bill ending “welfare as we know it” was not that. http://bit.ly/28IW8C6

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