National Review Online Rich Lowry August 18, 2006
On the 10th anniversary of reform, there is great cause for celebration.
What is the American Public Human Services Association? It is the association of state, federal, and local welfare directors formerly known as the American Public Welfare Association, from the days back before “welfare” had a bad name.
This month marks the 10th anniversary of the most extraordinary cultural and policy shift in recent American life —the revolution wrought by President Clinton’s signing of a welfare-reform bill in August 1996. Pro-work reforms of welfare had been bubbling up from the states since the early 1990s, but the federal legislation completed a change in philosophy that rippled into the lives of single mothers, changing them dramatically for the better.
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