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Scott Winship

Research Fellow

Manhattan Institute

Scott Winship is the Walter B. Wriston Fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research.  He researches economic security, mobility, and inequality in its Washington D.C.-based policy center, economics21.

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Poverty Declined After Welfare Reform

August 25, 2016
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Poverty & Inequality

This year marks the 20th anniversary of the landmark welfare reform that transformed antipoverty policy. The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act—known by the clumsy acronym PRWORA—was signed by President Bill Clinton on August 22, 1996, a couple of months before the presidential election. Clinton’s decision to sign welfare reform into law divided the Democratic party. Two prominent members of his welfare policy team resigned in protest, and Democrats opposed to the Republican-written legislation issued apocalyptic predictions. The late senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan