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Welfare Reform | Welfare Reform Must Protect Children and Legal Immigrants

Bill Clinton took office as the forty-second U.S. president in January 1993.

Summary: The bipartisan welfare reform act of 1996 will finally put an end to America’s failed welfare system by stressing work and responsibility. This legislation enhances the enforcement of child-support laws, provides billions of dollars for child care to help mothers on welfare become working mothers, protects nutritional assistance to children in welfare families, and guarantees health care to Americans on welfare. However, Congress should correct some flawed provisions of the...

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