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Welfare reform in the mid-1990s was a major public policy success, leading to a dramatic reduction in welfare dependency and child poverty. Little-noted provisions in the just-passed stimulus bill will actually abolish this historic reform. In addition, the bill will add nearly $650 billion in new means-tested welfare spending over the next decade. This new spending amounts to around $18,500 for every poor person in the United States. The cost of the new welfare spending alone amounts to nearly $8,500 for each taxpaying family.

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Welfare dependency is spiraling out of control. Get a good look at accurate welfare spending increases

President Obama has announced his intention to issue waivers that would exempt states from federal welfare-to-work requirements, overturning the foundation of the successful welfare-reform law of 1996. And now former president Bill Clinton, who signed that celebrated measure into law, has rushed to Obama’s defense by confusing his own record.

Higher welfare payments do not assist children; they increase dependence and illegitimacy, which have a devastatingly negativeeffect on children's development.