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The General Welfare:Consequences and lessons of reform.(the Clinton administration received extensive criticism for enacting welfare reform in 1996, but five years later even the critics admit it has worked better than expected)

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| September 17, 2001 | PONNURU, RAMESH | COPYRIGHT 2001 National Review, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Only one incident provoked any resignations of conscience from the Clinton administration, and it had nothing to do with the Lewinsky scandal. For liberals, President Clinton's greatest dishonor was his signing of welfare reform on August 22, 1996. The Washington Post and New York Times ran outraged editorial after outraged editorial. Three of Clinton's appointees resigned from the Department of Health and Human Services. One of them, Peter Edelman-whose wife, Marian Wright Edelman, had led the fight against the reform in her role as president of the Children's Defense Fund-later wrote an article for The Atlantic calling welfare reform "The Worst Thing Bill Clinton Has ...

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