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Two Nations, Indivisible: A History of Inequality in America: A History of Inequality in America

by Jamie Bronstein · 29 Oct 2016 · 332pp · 89,668 words

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, 2016. 87. Haskins, “Moynihan Was Right,” 298. 88. Bartels, “Tale of Two Tax Cuts,” at 419. 89. Haskins, “Moynihan Was Right,” 309. 90. Martin Carcasson, “Ending Welfare as We Know It: President Clinton and the Rhetorical Transformation of the Anti-Welfare Culture,” Rhetoric and Public Affairs vol. 9 no. 4 (2005): 655–692, at 677. 91

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Creating Unequal Futures?: Rethinking Poverty, Inequality and Disadvantage

by Ruth Fincher and Peter Saunders · 1 Jul 2001 · 267pp · 79,905 words

is ostensibly designed to alleviate. Recent policy developments in the United States seem to be based on this premise. From President Clinton’s promise to ‘end welfare as we know it’ in 1992 to the Republican Personal Responsibility Act of 1996 and subsequently, the underlying premise of US reforms has been that welfare is the problem

The Corruption of Capitalism: Why Rentiers Thrive and Work Does Not Pay

by Guy Standing · 13 Jul 2016 · 443pp · 98,113 words

insecurity. The defining moment came in 1996 when he signed the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act to fulfil his 1992 campaign pledge to ‘end welfare as we know it’. Drawn up by Republicans in Congress, the Act was based on welfare reforms introduced in Wisconsin by its Republican governor and was profoundly regressive, introducing

The Making of Global Capitalism

by Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin · 8 Oct 2012 · 823pp · 206,070 words

of internal party divisions, before Republicans and mobilized conservative forces delivered the coup de grace.”97 Clinton’s subsequent initiatives to balance the budget by “ending welfare as we know it” were accompanied by the disappointment of union hopes for labor law reforms that would help undo the loss of union rights and decline in union

Poverty for Profit

by Anne Kim · 384pp · 112,825 words

and conservative, mostly southern, Democrats, Clinton ran as a fiscally conservative “New Democrat” who pledged to balance the budget, get tough on crime, and to “end welfare as we know it.”66 His goal was to win back the centrists and “Reagan Democrats” who had defected to the GOP and to rebuild a Democratic center-left

After the New Economy: The Binge . . . And the Hangover That Won't Go Away

by Doug Henwood · 9 May 2005 · 306pp · 78,893 words

instead need the spur of their poverty, rather implausibly brutal; just a decade later. Bill CHnton won the presidency in part on a promise to "end welfare as we know it," and just a few years later, he signed a bill that did exactly that.^ And Gilder's late-1980s New Economy claims seemed loopy when

Automating Inequality

by Virginia Eubanks · 294pp · 77,356 words

AFDC. Today, TANF serves fewer than one in five of them. But the process of winnowing the rolls began long before Bill Clinton promised to “end welfare as we know it.” More aggressive investigation and increasingly precise tracking technologies provided raw material for apocryphal stories about widespread corruption and fraud. These stories birthed more punitive rules

Give People Money

by Annie Lowrey · 10 Jul 2018 · 242pp · 73,728 words

the New Deal–era welfare program, once aimed at widows and their children, but by the 1990s primarily used by unmarried mothers. He campaigned on “ending welfare as we know it,” twice vetoing Republican reform proposals for being too punitive but eventually signing a 1996 law that put a lifetime cap on benefits and required recipients

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the Union,” Jan. 8, 1964. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project, http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=26787. “ending welfare as we know it”: The Clinton/Gore 1992 Committee, “The Clinton Plan: Welfare to Work” (1992), https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/politics/bill-clinton-in-1992-ad-a-plan

Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea

by Mark Blyth · 24 Apr 2013 · 576pp · 105,655 words

logic by virtue of being Democrats, but it was, we should remember, the Democratic administration of Bill Clinton that had balanced the US budget and “ended welfare as we know it.” When the crisis hit, the United States may have been on the right ideologically, but it was very much on the left in terms of

Sleeping Giant: How the New Working Class Will Transform America

by Tamara Draut · 4 Apr 2016 · 255pp · 75,172 words

believing that poor people today “have it easy” because they can get benefits without having to do anything in return. They clearly missed the giant “ending welfare as we know it” reform law that was passed in 1996, which now keeps enrollment rates in public assistance very low, even during the Great Recession, when millions of