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OCR Page 1 of 23Andrea Kane
2/21/2000 02:00 PM
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Subject: NEW DEM DAILY: A Final High Note on Welfare Reform
In case you haven't already seen this very nice piece!
Forwarded by Andrea Kane/OPD/EOP on 12/21/2000 01:57 PM
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12/21/2000 12:44:39 PM
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Subject: NEW DEM DAILY: A Final High Note on Welfare Reform
NEW DEMOCRATS ONLINE
-- NEW DEM DAILY --
Pithy news and commentary from the DLC.
[ http://www.ndol.org ]
21-DEC-2000
A Final High Note on Welfare Reform
Given the enormous flak President Bill Clinton received --
much of it from old friends for signing the 1996 welfare
reform legislation, we're pleased that he has just received
one last opportunity to prove his critics wrong and report
another benchmark of success. According to the latest
statistics (June 2000), welfare caseloads have now dropped
to 5.8 million. That's a 60 percent decline since 1993, and
a 50 percent decline since the welfare reform bill was
enacted. It's also the lowest level of welfare dependency
since 1968.
But there's a lot more to welfare reform than simply
reducing caseloads. That's why the other good news the
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