on season one of the uncertain hour.

All right, so we're gonna talk about love styles.

That room full of middle-class couples

in a relationship skills workshop,

and this struggling mother of two.

Not everybody is homeless because of drugs or violence

or a bad decision.

Sometimes the drug really is just pulled out from under you

and that's what happened to me in mine.

And this dusty cassette tape,

once commissioned by a county bureaucrat.

We developed some welfare to work songs and...

Welfare to work songs.

Oh, yes, Prack One. Welfare is temporary.

All share a strange bond.

In surprising and very specific ways,

they're all part of the story

of something that culminated 20 years ago

in the White House Rose Garden

when a president signed a bill

and enacted some of the most sweeping changes ever

to the way we try to combat poverty.

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