Welfare reform is pretty popular. A Rasmussen poll last July found that 83 percent of American adults favor the work requirement placed on welfare by the 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work ...

Leaders in Washington have vowed to enact welfare reform this year. In an environment filled with so much toxic discourse, it’s more important than ever that we focus on overhauling welfare the ...

The Welfare Reform and Upward Mobility Act scales back the federal government’s role in the means-tested welfare system. Ninety percent of means-tested welfare funding for cash, food, and ...

Welfare reform has been a success. However lawmakers must again take the reigns to adopt proposals which will advance, not halt, progress. As Ronald Reagan said, "Welfare's purpose should be to ...

Welfare reform created a new program, called Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), which provides $16.5 billion in federal block grants—an amount that has not been adjusted for ...

P rime Minister Sir Keir Starmer clashed with one of his senior MPs over welfare reform as she said she felt “ashamed” of the ...

What would eventually become the final welfare reform bill was introduced in the Gingrich Congress at the start of 1995. This initial bill—later vetoed by President Clinton—passed in September.

Fifteen years ago next week, President Bill Clinton signed the welfare reform bill into law. There will be no ceremony Monday to mark the occasion. No cake. No card. Neither Democrats nor ...

Ideas like this build on growing evidence that the last big reform of welfare—the 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act—failed to fully deliver on its promise.