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Cultural shift in the desire to work. there's no woman that i've been, that i've spoken with in my research that doesn't really appreciate the value and the dignity of work. and when welfare reform happened, women were excited about that, they thought they might get some good job training programs and be able to find jobs with a living wage. now that didn't happen. what we found is that women are getting pushed into low-wage jobs and that child care subsidies, those kinds of programs that are supposed to help women get out of the home, be able to have child care so they can actually earn a liv...

Bit about what has happened in the wake of the temporary assistance to needy families. that was hailed by everyone has a success story. and when i say everyone, the beltway consensus, president bill clinton, people on both sides of the aisle said look, it was passed right before one of the largest sustained economic booms and tighter labor markets we had in a long time. unemployment went down to 4% and the roles dropped like crazy. they dropped for two reasons, one people were kicked off, and two, because people were able to find work, there was incentive to find work and they were able to fin...

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Columnist david kay johnson. and former congressman, tom perriello of virginia and heather mcgee from the demos think tank. we were talking about the definition of work for women that with a sort of in the news this week, maybe you noticed and played some sound from mitt romney, in january in a town hall in new hampshire where he talked about welfare room and the temporary assistance for needy families passed in 1996. it's important, the rationale for that program wasn't a dollars-and-cents rationale, it was about social engineering, basically. it was about the fact that a feeling that there w...

Programs quicker. but you can see this sort of penalty for marriages of equality where both people are working. and this subsidy for the sort of traditional family where one person stays home. and that that's sectiessentiall saying we want to encourage these good married moms to stay home and raise their kids. and these bad single moms, need them and their kids to go to day care, so they'll get a little better parenting experience. >> one of the fascinating things about the program known as welfare. one of the interesting things, there's things that qualify as work. one is child care for someo...