majority o Glass-Stegall?
Why would you not know how successful Clinton's welfare reforms were in getting people off of welfare and into jobs by giving educational assistance, job training incentives and child care? Ending welfare as we know it was a good thing. Why wouldn't a Democrat know that? Why wouldn't a real Democrat have even the slightest knowledge of the statistics that showed how much Clinton's initiatives improved the lives of American citizens? Clinton did twice veto the welfare reform legislation, but then they didn't have a veto--proof majority.
in 2000 7 million people were off of welfare and into the workforce
A study published in 2001 by a Clinton critic who had predicted social disaster and then quit the Clinton administration in 1995--showed a remarkable effect of welfare reform: The number of children living with single parents dropped by 8% in the five years after the bill was passed. "The percentage of all black children raised by married parents jumped from 34.8% to 38.9% during the period studied, a 10% increase in just five years."
Greatly expanded the Earned Income Tax Credit allowing working poor and newly working former welfare recipients to rise above the poverty level
The Administration’s budget proposes $255 million for the first year of a new “Fathers Work/Families Win” initiative to promote responsible fatherhood and support working families, critical next steps in reforming welfare and reducing child poverty. These new competitive grants will be awarded to business-led local and state workforce investment boards who work in partnership with community and faith-based organizations, and agencies administering child support, TANF, food stamps, and Medicaid, thereby connecting low-income fathers and working families to the life-long learning and employment services created under the Workforce Investment Act and delivered through one-stop career centers.
President Clinton and Vice President Gore have been committed to helping homeless Americans become more self-sufficient. HUD alone has invested nearly $5 billion in programs to help homeless people since 1993 -- more than three times the investment of the previous Administration. The Continuum of Care approach has helped more than 300,000 homeless people get housing and jobs to become self-sufficient. The Continuum of Care made clear that homelessness was more than simply a housing problem, and focused attention on long-term solutions which included housing as well as job training, drug treatment, mental health services, and domestic violence counseling. The Administration is also proposing to expand access to mainstream health, social services, and employment programs for which the homeless may be eligible through a new $10 million program administered by the Department of Health and Human Services, States, and large counties.
Establishment of Americorps
Establishment of enterprise zones (I think that is what they were called) to help impovershed areas attrack businesses and job opportunities.
Bill Clinton signed the bill. In response, Edelman’s husband, Peter, resigned his post in the Department of Health and Human Services saying this was “the worst thing Bill Clinton had done.” Contrary to Edelman’s predictions, welfare-reform proved an enormous success, maybe the greatest domestic achievement of Clinton’s presidency.
Welfare reform didn't continue to succeed the way it did when Clinton was President. During the Great Recession many poor were hurt (as were all of us) and the decentralization allowed some states to hurt the poor more than others, but many of the issues had to do with post-Clinton management of the programs and not the programs themselves (for example not increasing the funding to match the rate of inflation).
Welfare reform was coming with or without Bill Clinton. The Republicans held Congress and they first proposed all the cuts with nothing to help the individual in terms of education, child care or workforce training. The notion that Clinton failed at welfare reform is only believed by the Socialists and the right wingers who attack everything a Democrat does.
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