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    Morning Bell: The End of Welfare Reform As We Know It

    July 18, 2012 at 9:05 am

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    August 22, 1996 Surrounded by bipartisan members of Congress, Governors, administrative officials and former welfare recipients, President Bill Clinton signs welfare reform legislation Thursday at the White House. Known as the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, the bill ends 60 years of guaranteed monetary assistance to the poor. The three former welfare recipients are (from left, all women, standing around the President): Lillie Harden from Arkansas, Penelope Howard from Deleware and Janet Ferrel from West Virginia.

    The Obama Administration made yet another end run around Congress last week—this time, to gut the successful welfare reform law of 1996. If this is allowed to stand, it will mean rewinding years of progress that lifted millions out of poverty. Before the 1996 reform, welfare was a one-way handout: … More

    Obama Ends Welfare Reform as We Know It, Calls for $12.7 Trillion in New Welfare Spending

    July 17, 2012 at 4:13 pm

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    Last Thursday, the Obama Administration quietly issued new bureaucratic rules that overturned the popular welfare reform law of 1996. This was an illegal move, and it completely undoes years of progress that helped millions of Americans. What Welfare Reform Accomplished The 1996 reform replaced the old Aid to Families with … More

    Obama’s Gutting of Welfare Reform Is Illegal

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    July 16, 2012 at 4:45 pm

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    The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has a General Counsel and legal staff to ensure that the agency’s actions are lawful. Did they take the day off last Thursday? We have to question whether the department lawyers were consulted at all about the “Information Memorandum” issued by HHS … More

    Morning Bell: Obama’s Imperial Presidency Guts Welfare Reform

    July 13, 2012 at 9:14 am

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    The imperial Presidency has overturned Congress and the law again. Not content to stop at rewriting immigration policy, education policy and energy policy, yesterday, President Obama’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released an official policy directive rewriting the welfare reform law of 1996. The new policy guts the … More

    Obama Guts Welfare Reform

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    July 12, 2012 at 4:10 pm

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    August 22, 1996 Surrounded by bipartisan members of Congress, Governors, administrative officials and former welfare recipients, President Bill Clinton signs welfare reform legislation Thursday at the White House. Known as the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, the bill ends 60 years of guaranteed monetary assistance to the poor. The three former welfare recipients are (from left, all women, standing around the President): Lillie Harden from Arkansas, Penelope Howard from Deleware and Janet Ferrel from West Virginia.

    Today, the Obama Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released an official policy directive rewriting the welfare reform law of 1996. The new policy guts the federal work requirements that were the foundation of the reform law. The Obama directive bludgeons the letter and intent of the actual reform … More

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    Ed Meese: We’ve Seen the Effect of “Amnesty” BeforeExperts can’t always predict exactly how public policy will affect the nation, despite our best efforts. But when it comes to immigration policy, we have tried many of the types of reforms advocated by today’s Gang of Eight—so we should consider the effects these reforms had in the past. In … MoreMore
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