Welfare Reform Turns 20: What Trump & Clinton Can Learn from Its Success

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Daily Caller:

Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump recently laid out their economic visions for the United States, but strangely absent from both candidates’ plans was any mention of serious entitlement reform. Whether Americans elect Clinton, a candidate who pledges to raise taxes to pay for a slew of new government-run economic projects, or Trump, a candidate who wants to cut taxes for many and reduce regulations, the federal government is going to need to cut spending if it’s going to ever get the nation’s runaway national debt, which now sits at $19.4 trillion, under control.

 

Twenty years ago on Monday, Democratic President Bill Clinton and a Republican-led Congress worked together to move the country closer to fiscal sanity when it passed the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA). PRWORA was a much-needed and relatively radical reform of the country’s then-failing welfare system.

 

Prior to welfare reform being implemented in 1996, there were 12.6 million Americans enrolled in the nation’s welfare program. Since then, welfare rolls have declined by 77 percent—down to about 2.8 million people.

 

PRWORA was fundamentally transformed welfare in the United States by creating a five-year maximum lifetime limit recipients can be enrolled in welfare and by block-granting to the states federal funds so that local legislatures could decide how best to manage poverty.

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Learning from one of Bill's success stories.