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| Publisher | Reason Foundation |
| Publication | Reason |
| Subject | Humanities |
| Format | Magazine/Journal |
| ISSN | 0048-6906 |
| Issues per Year | 11 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Published | 2001-06-01 |
| Role | Type | Name |
| Author | n/a | Brian Doherty |
Those who paint Bill Clinton as a tough centrist like to point to his success with welfare reform. From the beginning of Clinton's reign through 1999, the nation's welfare caseload fell 53 percent, thanks partly to tougher welfare standards and partly to the booming economy. But tens of thousands of people have left the welfare rolls not for either of those reasons, but because of a Clinton initiative: a "welfare-to-work" program that encourages federal agencies to hire welfare recipients.
By its own standards, the program was a runaway success. Clinton's announced goal was...
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