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    "ocrText": "Draft 12/14/00 8:55 p.m.\nJohn Pollack\nPRESIDENT WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON\nRADIO ADDRESS ON\nWELFARE CASELOAD REDUCTIONS\nAND BUDGET NEGOTIATIONS\nTHE WHITE HOUSE\nDecember 16, 2000\nGood morning. This week, as I worked to conclude the last budget negotiations of my\nPresidency, I was reminded how far we have come these past eight years. We now live in a time\nof unprecedented peace and prosperity, but we didn't get here by accident. We made tough\nchoices based on our core values of opportunity for all, responsibility from all, and a community\nof all Americans. Today I want to talk about two elements critical to our continued success. First,\nour progress in moving people from welfare to work; and second, our commitment to fiscal\ndiscipline and a budget that puts people first.\nVice President Gore and I took office in 1993 with a pledge to \"end welfare as we know\nit.\" Thanks to comprehensive welfare reform, a renewed sense of responsibility, and the\nstrongest economy in a generation, millions of former welfare recipients now know the dignity of\nwork.\nToday, I am pleased to announce that - over the past eight years -we have cut our\nwelfare caseload by more than 8 million people. Last year alone, 1.2 million parents on welfare\nwent to work, determined to build better lives. Nationwide, welfare rolls have been cut by nearly\n60 percent, and are now the lowest in more than three decades.\nWe have been able to sustain this progress year after year because government, the\nprivate sector and welfare recipients themselves have all done their part. Together, we are finally\nbreaking the cycle of dependence that has long crippled the hopes of too many families.\nshare\nget\nWhen we enacted landmark welfare reform in 1996, I insisted that Congress provide\nincentives to reward states for helping people find and keep jobs. Today, I am pleased to\nannounce that 28 states will receive $200 million in bonuses for doing just that. These grants\nwill enable states to help even more parents go to work and succeed on the job. I urge states to\nuse these resources to provide necessary supports - from child care to transportation to training -\nthat can make the critical difference between a welfare check and a paycheck.\nWe've also worked hard to help families leaving welfare meet the challenge of affordable\nhealth care. In the bipartisan budget package I will soon sign, we will extend Medicaid coverage\nso that thousands of parents who leave welfare can keep the health coverage protecting them and\ntheir children. This budget also includes funding to help cover more uninsured children. speed\n?\ncoverage for patients with Lou Gehrig's disease, and increase payments to hospitals, teaching\nfacilities, home health agencies and nursing homes, in order to ensure quality health care."
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