In the next week or two congress will decide the fate of welfare reform. Welfare reform? Isn't that last year's story? Well, yes. Last year Congress passed a reform that was the most significant legislation of Bill Clinton's first term— and just about the only revolutionary act of Newt Gingrich's "revolution." So far, the law seems to be working: caseloads are plummeting nationwide. Yet now, when nobody's looking, those soft-headed, entitlement-loving politicians in Congress are busy undermining the 1996 reform, gutting its work requirements and imposing Washington-knows-best restrictions that ensure states will not be able to put large numbers of recipients to work.
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