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    "ocrText": "CLINTON LIBRARY PHOTOCOPY\nTo:\nATU\n5 pp\nPHOTOCOPY\nBOB\nRESERVATION\nReed 9/8/92 4pm DRAFT\nGS\netal\nRemarks Prepared for Delivery\nClayton County Office of Family & Children's Services\nJonesboro, Georgia\nSeptember 9, 1992\nI'm so glad I had the chance to be here in Jonesboro today to\ntalk with people who are working hard to lift themselves off\nwelfare and go back to work. [Tell stories of the mothers you will\nhave just met who are in the program.\nhise\nI wanted to come here today, because like many of the people\nI\nthis morning, I was born poor, in a state here more than\nha the ple lived below the poverty line.\nmother was\nidowed before I was born, and for my first years I lived with my\ngrandparents while my mother went back to nursing school so she\ncould get a job and support us.\nto\nbecauset.ef shelan AM bet Xx Pre as 3 '5\nAnd I wanted to come here because like the good people who run\nthis program, I have spent the last decade back home in my state\nworking to change the welfare system to lift people out f poverty\nand give people on welfare the skills they need to go back to work\nThis has been the work of my life, and it will be a central part of\nmy presidency.\nSTART\nmidd\nHere in Georgia, and across this country, people are hurting\nLMiddle-class people are working harder than ever and making less;\nw/\nd\nthe Commerce Depart\nlast week that the average\namily\nly\n,SH IT have Sare naturito helfare HARDER woll \"th\nsaw its income dr\n$1,100 ast year. Over the last decade, the\nclass\nentage of har work, low-wage jobs increased by half. Poverty\nploding: 37 million people last year, and growing. One of\nten Americans is on food stamps. America's welfare rolls are\nfull to bursting.\nmeat? ne\nMeanwhile, for the irst time since the roaring '20s, the\nmery eah\nwealthiest 1% of Americans now control more than 90% of the\nnation's wealth -- while working people have seen America's wages\ndrop from 1st in the world a decade ago to 13th today. Millions of\nhard-working people can't get health insurance or earn a decent\n40%\nwage so their children get enough to eat.\nother day, in columbus, Ohio, I met a woman with seven\nchildr\nwho was making $50,000 a year. She was so proud that she\ncould support her family. But one of her children had spina\nutida, and her insurance premiums got so high that she had to quit\nher job and\nare so her child ould get care.\nEverywher go, I meet parents who've lost their jobs and\ndread what\ntheir favorite time of the day -- having dinner\nwith\nthei\nfamily because now the tension is so thick you could\nRECEIVED FROM"
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