An epidemic of extreme poverty among American children was a predictable consequence of the AFDC repeal that Newt Gingrich designed and Bill Clinton signed in 1996.Mary Jo Bane and Peter B. Edelman resigned over it.
One thing that makes me immensely proud to have worked for Alicia Munnell is that she held up Clinton's "ending of welfare as we know it" for months in 1995-6...
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