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Music From the Heritage Foundation, I'm Tim Desisan Welfare Reform Act of 1996.

Robert Rector told us that in crafting welfare reform to serve the one in seven American children who were dependent on government aid, we needed to do two things.

First, require work in exchange for welfare, and second, strengthen families. On the last episode, we heard that as a result of these objectives,

welfare caseloads, which, by the way, hadn't dropped significantly in 50 years,

promptly fell 60%.

Also, the child poverty rate suddenly dropped by a third after being static for a quarter century.

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