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74 relations: Aid to Families with Dependent Children, Barbara Ehrenreich, Bill Clinton, Bill Clinton presidential campaign, 1992, Block grant, Brookings Institution, Child support, Civil rights movement, Contract with America, Culture of poverty, Dave Camp, Deficit Reduction Act of 2005, Democratic Party (United States), Earned income tax credit, Eunique v. Powell, Feminism, Florida's 22nd congressional district, Frances Fox Piven, George W. Bush, Georgetown University, Great Migration (African American), Great Recession in the United States, Habitat for Humanity, Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996, Job Opportunities and Basic Skills Training program, John Kasich, Kaplan, Inc., Kathleen Sebelius, Law of the United States, Milwaukee, Misogyny, National Center for Health Research, National Welfare Rights Organization, Newt Gingrich, Norma M. Riccucci, Ohio, Orrin Hatch, PDF, Peter Edelman, PolitiFact, Presidency of Barack Obama, Racism, Randy Albelda, Republican Party (United States), Retro Report, Self-Sufficiency Project, Social programs in the United States, Social Security Act, South End Press, South Side, Chicago, ..., Tax Reform Act of 1986, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, The American Economic Review, The New Republic, The New York Times, Tommy Thompson, Trent Lott, United States Chamber of Commerce, United States Congress, United States Department of Health and Human Services, United States House Committee on the Budget, United States House Committee on Ways and Means, United States House of Representatives, United States Secretary of Health and Human Services, United States Senate, United States Senate Committee on the Budget, Universal health care, Welfare fraud, Welfare queen, Welfare reform, Welfare's effect on poverty, Wisconsin, Workfare, Working poor. Expand index (24 more) »
Aid to Families with Dependent Children
Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) was a federal assistance program in effect from 1935 to 1996 created by the Social Security Act (SSA) and administered by the United States Department of Health and Human Services that provided financial assistance to children whose families had low or no income.
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Barbara Ehrenreich
Barbara Ehrenreich (born August 26, 1941) is an American author and political activist who describes herself as "a myth buster by trade" and has been called "a veteran muckraker" by The New Yorker.
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Bill Clinton
William Jefferson Clinton (born August 19, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001.
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Bill Clinton presidential campaign, 1992
The 1992 presidential campaign of Bill Clinton, then Governor of Arkansas, was announced on October 3, 1991 in Little Rock, Arkansas.
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Block grant
In a fiscal federal form of government, a block grant is a large sum of money granted by the national government to a regional government with only general provisions as to the way it is to be spent, in contrast to a categorical grant, which has stricter and specific provisions on the way it is to be spent.
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Brookings Institution
The Brookings Institution is a century-old American research group on Think Tank Row in Washington, D.C. It conducts research and education in the social sciences, primarily in economics, metropolitan policy, governance, foreign policy, and global economy and development.
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Child support
In family law and public policy, child support (or child maintenance) is an ongoing, periodic payment made by a parent for the financial benefit of a child (or parent, caregiver, guardian, or state) following the end of a marriage or other relationship.
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Civil rights movement
The civil rights movement (also known as the African-American civil rights movement, American civil rights movement and other terms) was a decades-long movement with the goal of securing legal rights for African Americans that other Americans already held.
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Contract with America
The Contract with America was a document released by the United States Republican Party during the 1994 Congressional election campaign.
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Culture of poverty
The culture of poverty is a concept in social theory that expands on the idea of a cycle of poverty.
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Dave Camp
David Lee Camp (born July 9, 1953) is a former politician who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1991 to 2015.
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Deficit Reduction Act of 2005
The Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 is a United States Act of Congress concerning the federal budget that became law in 2006.
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Democratic Party (United States)
The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party (nicknamed the GOP for Grand Old Party).
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Earned income tax credit
The United States federal earned income tax credit or earned income credit (EITC or EIC) is a refundable tax credit for low- to moderate-income working individuals and couples, particularly those with children.
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Eunique v. Powell
Eunique v. Powell, 281 F.3d 940 (9th Cir. 2002),challenging passport denial for child support arrearage under 42 U.S.C. § 652(k) and enacted as part of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act in 1996, is the second cornerstone of the Court's thinking on passport denial/revocation under this law.
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Feminism
Feminism is a range of political movements, ideologies, and social movements that share a common goal: to define, establish, and achieve political, economic, personal, and social equality of sexes.
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Florida's 22nd congressional district
Florida's 22nd congressional district is an electoral district for the U.S. Congress, located in southeast Florida.
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Frances Fox Piven
Frances Fox Piven (born October 10, 1932) is an American professor of political science and sociology at The Graduate Center, City University of New York, where she has taught since 1982.
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George W. Bush
George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States from 2001 to 2009.
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Georgetown University
Georgetown University is a private research university in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States.
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Great Migration (African American)
The Great Migration was the movement of 6 million African-Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West that occurred between 1916 and 1970.
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Great Recession in the United States
The Great Recession in the United States was a severe financial crisis combined with a deep recession.
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Habitat for Humanity
Habitat for Humanity International (HFHI), generally referred to as Habitat for Humanity or simply Habitat, is an international, non-governmental, and nonprofit organization, which was founded in 1976.
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Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996
The Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996, Division C of (often referred to as "i-RAI-ruh," and sometimes abbreviated as "IIRAIRA" or "IIRIRA") vastly changed the immigration laws of the United States.
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Job Opportunities and Basic Skills Training program
The Job Opportunities and Basic Skills Training program (JOBS) was a welfare-to-work program created by the Family Support Act of 1988 to replace the Work Incentive program (WIN) created by the Social Security Act Amendments of 1967.
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John Kasich
John Richard Kasich Jr. (born May 13, 1952) is an American politician, author and former television news host serving as the 69th and current Governor of Ohio.
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Kaplan, Inc.
Kaplan, Inc. is a for-profit corporation that provides educational services to colleges and universities and corporations and businesses, including higher education programs, professional training and certifications, test preparation and student support services.
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Kathleen Sebelius
Kathleen Sebelius (née Gilligan; born May 15, 1948) is an American businesswoman and politician who served as the 21st United States Secretary of Health and Human Services from 2009 until 2014.
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Law of the United States
The law of the United States comprises many levels of codified and uncodified forms of law, of which the most important is the United States Constitution, the foundation of the federal government of the United States.
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Milwaukee
Milwaukee is the largest city in the state of Wisconsin and the fifth-largest city in the Midwestern United States.
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Misogyny
Misogyny is the hatred of, contempt for, or prejudice against women or girls.
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National Center for Health Research
The National Center for Health Research (formerly the National Research Center for Women & Families) is a Washington, D.C.-based non-profit organization founded in 1999.
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National Welfare Rights Organization
The National Welfare Rights Organization (NWRO) was an American activist organization that fought for the welfare rights of people, especially women and children.
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Newt Gingrich
Newton Leroy Gingrich (né McPherson; born June 17, 1943) is an American politician and author, born in Pennsylvania, later representing Georgia in Congress, and ultimately serving as 50th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1995 to 1999.
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Norma M. Riccucci
Norma M. Riccucci is a Distinguished Professor of Public Administration at the School of Public Affairs and Administration at Rutgers University in Newark.
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Ohio
Ohio is a Midwestern state in the Great Lakes region of the United States.
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Orrin Hatch
Orrin Grant Hatch (born March 22, 1934) is an American attorney and politician serving as the senior United States Senator for Utah who has been the President pro tempore of the United States Senate since 2015.
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The Portable Document Format (PDF) is a file format developed in the 1990s to present documents, including text formatting and images, in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating systems.
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Peter Edelman
Peter Benjamin Edelman (born January 9, 1938) is an American lawyer, policy maker, and law professor at Georgetown University Law Center, specializing in the fields of poverty, welfare, juvenile justice, and constitutional law.
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PolitiFact
PolitiFact.com is a blog operated by the editorial board of theTampa Bay Times, in which reporters and editors from the Times and affiliated media seek to fact-check statements by members of Congress, the White House, lobbyists, and interest groups.
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Presidency of Barack Obama
The presidency of Barack Obama began at noon EST on January 20, 2009, when Barack Obama was inaugurated as 44th President of the United States, and ended on January 20, 2017.
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Racism
Racism is the belief in the superiority of one race over another, which often results in discrimination and prejudice towards people based on their race or ethnicity.
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Randy Albelda
Randy Pearl Albelda (born 1955) is an American feminist economist, activist, author, and academic who specialises in poverty and gender issues.
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Republican Party (United States)
The Republican Party, also referred to as the GOP (abbreviation for Grand Old Party), is one of the two major political parties in the United States, the other being its historic rival, the Democratic Party.
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Retro Report
Retro Report is a non-profit news organization that produces mini documentaries looking back on the biggest stories from the past to see how they affect today's news.
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Self-Sufficiency Project
The Self-Sufficiency Project was a Canadian experiment in the 1990s that provided a "generous, time-limited earnings supplement available to single parents who had been on welfare for a least a year, and who subsequently left welfare and found full-time work." The study found that individuals offered a SSP subsidy were four percent more likely to stay on welfare to receive the benefit, but once people qualified for the SSP supplement, 44% left welfare dependence and were employed full-time—defined as working at least 30 hours a week.
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Social programs in the United States
Social programs in the United States are welfare subsidies designed to meet needs of the American population.
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Social Security Act
The Social Security Act of 1935, now codified as, created Social Security in the United States, and is relevant for US labor law.
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South End Press
South End Press was a non-profit book publisher run on a model of participatory economics.
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South Side, Chicago
The South Side is a region of the city of Chicago.
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Tax Reform Act of 1986
The U.S. Congress passed the Tax Reform Act of 1986 (TRA) to simplify the income tax code, broaden the tax base and eliminate many tax shelters.
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Temporary Assistance for Needy Families
Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) is one of the United States of America's federal assistance programs.
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The American Economic Review
The American Economic Review is a peer-reviewed academic journal of economics.
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The New Republic
The New Republic is a liberal American magazine of commentary on politics and the arts, published since 1914, with influence on American political and cultural thinking.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.
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Tommy Thompson
Tommy George Thompson (born November 19, 1941) is an American Republican politician who was a state legislator in Wisconsin, and 42nd Governor of Wisconsin from 1987 to 2001, and is the longest serving governor in the state's history.
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Trent Lott
Chester Trent Lott Sr. (born October 9, 1941) is an American politician and author.
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United States Chamber of Commerce
The United States Chamber of Commerce (USCC) is a business-oriented American lobbying group.
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United States Congress
The United States Congress is the bicameral legislature of the Federal government of the United States.
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United States Department of Health and Human Services
The United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), also known as the Health Department, is a cabinet-level department of the U.S. federal government with the goal of protecting the health of all Americans and providing essential human services.
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United States House Committee on the Budget
The United States House Committee on the Budget, commonly known as the House Budget Committee, is a standing committee of the United States House of Representatives.
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United States House Committee on Ways and Means
The Committee on Ways and Means is the chief tax-writing committee of the United States House of Representatives.
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United States House of Representatives
The United States House of Representatives is the lower chamber of the United States Congress, the Senate being the upper chamber.
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United States Secretary of Health and Human Services
The United States Secretary of Health and Human Services is the head of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, concerned with health matters.
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United States Senate
The United States Senate is the upper chamber of the United States Congress, which along with the United States House of Representatives—the lower chamber—comprise the legislature of the United States.
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United States Senate Committee on the Budget
The United States Senate Committee on the Budget was established by the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974.
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Universal health care
Universal health care (also called universal health coverage, universal coverage, universal care, or socialized health care) is a health care system that provides health care and financial protection to all citizens of a particular country.
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Welfare fraud
Welfare fraud is the act of illegally using state welfare systems by knowingly withholding or giving information to obtain more funds than would otherwise be allocated.
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Welfare queen
"Welfare queen" is a derogatory term used in the U.S. to refer to women who allegedly misuse or collect excessive welfare payments through fraud, child endangerment, or manipulation.
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Welfare reform
Welfare reforms are changes in the operation of a given welfare system, with the goals of reducing the number of individuals dependent on government assistance, keeping the welfare systems affordable, and assisting recipients in becoming more self-sufficient.
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Welfare's effect on poverty
The effect of social welfare on poverty is controversial.
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Wisconsin
Wisconsin is a U.S. state located in the north-central United States, in the Midwest and Great Lakes regions.
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Workfare
Workfare is an alternative, and controversial, way of providing money to otherwise unemployed or underemployed people, who are applying for social benefits.
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Working poor
The working poor are working people whose incomes fall below a given poverty line due to lack of work hours and/or low wages.
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1996 welfare law, PRWORA, Personal Responsibility & Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act, Personal Responsibility & Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act, Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity and Reconciliation Act of 1996, Welfare Reform Act of 1996, Welfare to Work, Welfare to work, Welfare to work reforms, Welfare-to-work, Welfare-to-work program.
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_Responsibility_and_Work_Opportunity_Act
