Reply #13: Why do you think that they might not have done so anyway? [View All]

[Maddy McCall]

Are you a teacher? Was who's on welfare a topic of teacher's lounge conversation?

Perhaps the improved child care conditions under Clinton made it possible for people who wanted to work to go to work. The only good thing about Clintonian welfare reform was that it provided day care to working parents who were moving from welfare to work.

Possibly, some of the people you saw move from welfare to work did so because they wanted to, not because they had to.

Clinton wasn't even in office when the first group of people were forced off of TANF. They had five years to receive benefits before being bumped.

I tend to think that many of them found work because they wanted to, not because they had to--at least that is what my research showed me when I did it back in 2001-02.