Welfare reform was passed in the 90’s and signed into law by President Clinton. It limited lifetime benefits. I was there when it happened, teaching recipients how to look for work at the state unemployment office. Many of those women finally decided to go to work. BTW, we (taxpayers) had paid for many of them to attend college or trade schools and they “still couldn’t find a job” (in a city with 3% unemployment!) until the law came about. Then, miraculously, they found work. Mr. Obama rescinded those requirements.
“Welfare reform was passed in the 90’s and signed into law by President Clinton. It limited lifetime benefits. I was there when it happened, teaching recipients how to look for work at the state unemployment office. Many of those women finally decided to go to work.”
I remember that as well; it was sad to see how ill-prepared many of them were for the workforce. The lasting legacy of the 1996 welfare reform will be the drop in the black birthrate; within a few years Hispanics, who had been predicted to pass blacks in numbers by 2010, had pssed them ten years earlier than that. “Anglos” should have seen the writing on the wall at that point; they are still being fed absurd projections to prevent a panic or reaction.
I recall “welfare reform” and as you say, we tax payers paid for their schooling. I know as well as I was paying my way through a very nice college and in some of my classes was a “welfare mom” attending for “free” while I was coughing up 13K a semester. Take a wild guess what she is doing today..