Updated 12-2-97
The Great American Welfare Lab Wisconsin has cut its rolls by half. Many former recipients are working, but where have the rest of them gone? By Adam Cohen/TIME (4/21/97) A Blue-Ribbon County Marquette County, Wisconsin, sheds its welfare load. By Adam Cohen/TIME (4/21/97) Let Them Eat Birthday Cake Clinton's welfare reform dismays the President's favorite poverty scholar By Jack E. White/TIME (9/2/96) Ripping Up Welfare With not a little drama, Clinton grudgingly approves the G.O.P. bill, and the U.S. starts a vast and risky experiment By George J. Church/TIME (8/12/96)
The Department of Health and Human Services Welfare Reform Page Health and Human Services Welfare Reform Fact Sheet
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State Block Grant LevelsFundamental to the new welfare law is Washington's decision to let states manage their own welfare programs, supported by so-called "block grants" from Washington. Those grants, fixed at funding levels for AFDC in fiscal 1995, fiscal 1994 or the average of fiscal 1992-94 (whichever is greatest) vary from state to state. Below are estimates for state-by-state funding per poor child compiled by Congressional Quarterly. Funding Per Poor Child Per Fiscal Year
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