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The analysis presented in this paper indicates that child poverty is more often the result of low levels of parental work than of parents' low hourly wage rates.

By all accounts, Bill Clinton seemed to thoroughly enjoy delivering his prime-time speech to a rapt audience at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte. In his 48-minute tour de force, one of the former president’s whistle stops was welfare reform. Clinton warned his listeners that the charge he was about to rebut was “a real doozy”: President Obama wants to weaken the work requirements in the welfare reform bill I signed that moved millions of people from welfare to work. Apparently it was a laugh line brimming with irony.

The 1996 welfare reform began necessary changes to the disastrous old welfare system. The rewards to non-work in the TANF program have been substantially reduced. But much more remains to be done.

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Subsidize anything, and you’ll get more of it — especially if it’s something you don’t want. It’s an old truism that long has served to expose the foibles of bad