3. What were the circumstances surrounding President Clinton’s approval of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996? How is this an example of the interaction between real world politics and legislative priorities? Will the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 reduce poverty in the long run?
The legislation provided an historic opportunity to end the welfare as we know it and transform the broken welfare system by promoting fundamental values of work, the responsibility, and family.
The Act honors basic principles of real welfare reform. It requires the work of welfare recipients, limits time they could stay on welfare, and provides the child care and health care in order to help them make move from the welfare to work.
It demands the personal responsibility, and puts in place the tough child support enforcement measures. It promotes the family and protects children.
There are bills which were voted while for this particular legislation there was no voting to remove. In the long run with the adjustments being made to the bill it will reduce poverty.
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