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Reform Social Security Disability
Back during the presidential campaign, Mitt Romney tried to make the argument that President Obama was soft on welfare reform. He missed the target. Welfare...
New Welfare Reform Directive Creates Unlikely Political Issue for Obama
During the 2008 presidential campaign, pastor Rick Warren asked Senator Barack Obama if he had changed his mind on any substantive issue in the past decade...
Checking Romney’s Claim that Obama Wants to ‘Gut Welfare Reform’
In a new ad released Tuesday, Mitt Romney charges that the Obama Administration has returned to “plain old welfare” by dropping work requirements passed in 1996...
Morning Must Reads: Pretend
Romney attacks Obama on welfare reform. It’s worth noting that a) the changes to TANF aim to improve employment outcomes by letting states try different methods,...
Welfare Warfare, Fought in Shallow Waters
This morning the Republican National Committee held a conference call with former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum to continue the GOP assault on Barack Obama...
Was Newt Gingrich Right About Lazy Kids?
Newt Gingrich has a penchant for saying provocative and often downright crazy things. When the former House Speaker gave a lecture at Harvard last month, calling...
Rich Ohio But Poor Ohioans
One goal of the 1996 federal welfare reform was to give states more flexibility in spending antipoverty funds, through the Temporary Assistance for Needy...
America's 5 Best Governors
Until recently, Governors had the best jobs in America. In the 1990s they cut taxes and built schools with capital gains from the booming economy. Where Congress...
What I Told the Grand Jury
It was my first interview with the President, and I expected a simple "Hello" when I walked into the Oval Office last December. Instead, George W. Bush joked,...
The Welfare Merry-Go-Round: Part 2
Given the other issues at hand, you might not think welfare reform would be a hot one for President Bush. But he has long wanted to toughen the 1996 law that led...
