Obama, believe it or not, is giving more power to the states in this case. A fairly unbiased review is here:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/wp/2012/07/17/is-obama-gutting-welfare-reform/
People need to read the actual order.
The Washington Post is not unbiased, and what Obama did was give democrat states the “power” to gut the welfare work requirement. Dick Morris was explaining this on tv tonight. One of the main purposes of the welfare reform law was to prevent exactly this.