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Originally Posted by buggyone
Which Executive Order was this and when was it signed? I could not find it on the recent ones signed.
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"Obama Ends Welfare Reform As We Know It
By Robert Rector & Katherine Bradley
July 12, 2012 7:00 P.M.
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This afternoon, President Obama’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released an official policy directive undermining the welfare reform law of 1996. The new policy guts the federal work requirements that have been the foundation of that law — one of the most successful domestic policy reforms in the 20th century.
Welfare reform replaced the old Aid to Families with Dependent Children with a new program, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF). The underlying concept of welfare reform was that able-bodied adults should be required to work or prepare for work as a condition of receiving welfare aid.
Obama Ends Welfare Reform As We Know It - By Robert Rector & Katherine Bradley - The Corner - National Review Online
Not just this one but the ongoing barrage of these to pander votes and increase our debt