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CNN The Nineties June 4, 2024 05:50:00

are the unanticipated consequences. for example, they didn't take into account childcare. if you're gonna put people back to work, who's ultimately gonna take care of the children that are left home? and it was these questions that exposed the weakness of the bill. - i tried to go to work, but i really didn't have childcare, but i was in school. i was doing something, not just sitting around doing nothing. - so you want to work. - of course. - welfare becomes racialized in a way in which we begin to hear all of these stereotypes being trotted out about the lazy, dependant welfare queens. there are more white people on welfare at that time than there were black people, but there was this sense again that welfare's helping those people, it's a handout, and we can't do that. so again, bill clinton turns on his base with welfare reform. - 14 million americans, mainly black in the cities, white elsewhere, will be hit. more than a million children will be thrown into poverty. - there is a significant story of people who have fallen below the radar screen,

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