Poorest Miss out on Benefits, Since 1996 Welfare Reform, USA

Saturday, May. 11th 2013 8:13 AM

Although the federal government’s 1996 reform of welfare brought some improvements for the nation’s poor, it also may have made extremely poor Americans worse off, new research shows. The reforms radically changed cash assistance – what most Americans think of as ‘welfare’ – by imposing lifetime limits on the receipt of aid and requiring recipients to work.

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