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The Clinton Presidency:
Strengthening American Families
inventory
In 1992, the economy was stagnant. Middle class families were working harder for less money.
Unemployment reached 7.5 percent, the highest level in 8 years, with record layoffs doubling or
tripling unemployment rates in many communities. Family wages lost ground to inflation between
1988-92, yet the federal government failed to move to create jobs, raise wages, and put America
back to work. New jobs were being created at the slowest rate in decades. Because losing a job
meant losing the family's health insurance, middle class families could lose their savings, their
homes and become trapped in a broken welfare system.
Moving Families from Welfare to Work
[general note: to cover the fatherhood and transportation stories that follow, we ve
broadened the "NOW" section a bit. We're also suggesting putting it in bullets like
the "Helping Families Succeed on the Job and at Home" section that follows, and
reordering it to flow better]
THEN: In 1992 a broken welfare system made it virtually impossible to move from welfare
back to work, trapping families in a cycle of dependency. There were 13.6 million people on
welfare when President Clinton came to office - 5.5 percent of the population. Just seven
percent of those on welfare were working. And the federal government was doing little to
encourage parental responsibility. For example, only $8 billion in child support was collected
through federal and state efforts, a small fraction of the more than $17 billion owed [JB - pls
check. I don't think the ratio of collections to amount owed has improved too much and is not
something we usually brag about. I'd rather drop that part of sentence. Could replace that part
of sentence with "and teen birth rates were increasing dramatically."
NOW: -The landmark welfare reform signed by President Clinton in 1996 has transformed the
welfare system to one that promotes work and responsibilitymoves Americans from welfare to
work, while protecting the health and safety of children.
Under the Clinton-Gore Administration, the welfare rolls have been cut in half to the lowest
level since 1968, dropping by 6.6to 6.3 million people to the lowest level since 1968 or 2.3
percent of the population [changed to make more parallel with the "THEN" statement]. Today,
most recipients are encouraged expected to work, millions of parents have left welfare for jobs,
and a record 33 percent of current welfare recipients are now working (five times more than in
1992).
To help move families from welfare to work, tThe President launched the The Welfare-to-
Work Partnership [capitalize The, no hyphens] to lead the private sectornational effort to hire
people from the welfare rolls. Now over 20,000 businesses strong, the Partnership has fostered
partnerships between employers and community and faith based organizations that help
families move from welfare to work and helped an estimated 1.1 million welfare recipients
move to employment.
Under Vice President Gore's leadership, tThe Administration has also done its fair share,
hiring nearly 50,000 welfare recipients since March 1997 [JB this is latest released #, right-?]
and fostering partnerships with community and faith-based organizations that help families
move from welfare to work and succeed on the job.
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