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Welfare Reform

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Bill Clinton vowed to "end welfare as we know it" and congressional law sent nine million women and children streaming from the rolls. Did it work? Jason de Parle talks about his new book, American Dream: Three Women, Ten Kids, and a Nation's Drive to End Welfare, with Mickey Kaus.

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