What a difference a year makes. Last winter, hopes were running high that “welfare reform” was itself ripe for reform. The plunging economy was revealing the shallowness of the much-ballyhooed success of the 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act—after being slashed by 60 percent, welfare rolls began to rise again late last year—and while more women were working, child… return to article
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