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fundamental bargain that we ought to have opportunity for all in return for
responsibility from all our citizens, and to include everyone in America's community.
Today, the bargain is being fulfilled and our country is working again. We have the
longest peacetime expansion in history, nearly 19 million new jobs; the lowest
unemployment in a generation; the lowest minority unemployment ever recorded;
the highest home ownership in history. From a deficit of $290 billion we are moving to a
surplus of $99 billion. And this year alone we will be pay $85 billion on our national
debt. (Applause.)
And a big part of this is the decision that the American people, through their elected
representatives, made to end welfare as we know it. We raised the minimum wage
and passed the earned income tax credit, which says to working families if you work
full-time you shouldn't have to raise your children in poverty. We gave 43 waivers to
states to launch their own welfare reform efforts when I took office. And then in
1996, as has already been said, a big bipartisan majority, big majorities of both
parties and both Houses reached across the divide to pass this welfare reform bill.
We recognize that in addition to requiring able-bodied people to work within a certain
period of time, millions of people who had never known anything but dependency,
who had never even seen, many of them, their own parents have a job, could not make
the transition on their own or easily. So we made sure there was extra support for child
care, for transportation, for housing, and we kept the national guarantee -- after two
vetoes, but we kept the national guarantee of medical care and nutrition for the
children of people on welfare and for those moving off. (Applause.)
We also provided new tax incentives to encourage employers to hire people from
welfare. Today I am very proud to be able to tell you that all 50 states and the
District of Columbia have now met the work requirements for the percentage of people
on welfare in their states that have to be in work that we set in 1996 -- every single
state is in compliance. (Applause.)
The welfare rolls have been cut in half; they're at their lowest level in 32 years.
(Applause.) And those who are on welfare today are four times as likely to work as
when I took office. Now, while some of the credit, doubtless, goes to our booming
economy, the Council of Economic Advisors recently did a study for me which found
that welfare reform, with its new emphasis on work, has been the single most
important factor in reducing the roles. Three-quarters of the 6.8 million people who
have left welfare since I took office did so after welfare reform was signed in 1996.
And many who left before did so under the reform efforts adopted by the states.
The credit goes to all of you in this audience, and people like you across our
country. When we passed the law in '96, I said moving Americans from welfare to work
would take the commitment of every element of our society, not just government -- but
businesses, faith-based organizations, community groups and private citizens. The
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