Stimulus Bill Abolishes Welfare Reform and Adds New Welfare Spending

Well of course it does.  What else would be expected??

Stimulus Bill Abolishes Welfare Reform and Adds New Welfare Spending

 

Stimulus Bill Abolishes Welfare Reform and Adds New Welfare Spending

by Robert E. Rector and Katherine Bradley

WebMemo #2287

A major public policy success, welfare reform in the mid-1990s led to a dramatic reduction in welfare dependency and child poverty. This successful reform, however is now in jeopardy: Little-noted provisions in the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate stimulus bills actually abolish this historic reform. In addition, the stimulus bills will add nearly $800 billion in new means-tested welfare spending over the next decade. This new spending amounts to around $22,500 for every poor person in the U.S. The cost of the new welfare spending amounts, on average, to over $10,000 for each family paying income tax.