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Feb 26, 2002 · President Bush announced his welfare reform agenda to strengthen families and help more welfare recipients work toward independence and self-reliance. The President’s agenda builds on the success of the historic 1996 welfare reform law:
One reason Bush chose to speak about welfare reform in Ohio may be the success the state has had with the issue. About 210,000 people are on Ohio's welfare rolls today compared with...
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Oct 16, 2000 · Bush’s Texan philosophy for the poor: up-by-the-bootstraps. From 1995 to 1998, the poverty rate in Texas decreased more than 10%, compared with an almost 9% drop nationwide. Tax cuts & economic reforms have resulted in the lowest state unemployment rate in nearly 20 years; welfare reform has cut public assistance rolls in half; and legal ...
President Bush’s Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives — created to give religious groups tax dollars to operate social welfare programs — opened on Feb. 20. Behind the administration’s stated pious hopes for this project lies an unspoken fear that respect for rules and authority has broken down.
May 10, 2002 · President Bush Friday called on Congress to pass strong state and local flexibility as part of welfare reform, including a Ticket to Independence provision that allows state and local governments to more effectively help people move from welfare dependency to work.
the Bush administration has been more aggressive in pursuit of welfare reform’s stated goals to reduce out-of-wedlock births and promote marriage. In particular, the Bush administration has created the Healthy Marriage Initiative and sought federal funding for programs that would support formation of two-parent families and responsible ...
Aug 22, 2016 · In the aftermath of welfare reform, there has been a sharp rise in the number of households with children reporting incomes of less than $2 per person per day, a fact we documented in our book, $2 ...
