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Rachel Gragg and Margy Waller

Welfare reform, 10 years later

By Rachel Gragg and Margy Waller
August 22, 2006

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IT WAS 10 years ago today that President Clinton signed a major welfare reform overhaul into law. In the years since, a revisionist view of the debate and the issues then in play has increasingly gotten in the way of progressive legislative responses that could improve the economy for today's low-wage workers. (Full article: 731 words)

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