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Government commitment made 61 years ago of federal aid to the nation's poorest. >> what ultimately happens is that there are the unanticipated consequences, for example, they didn't take into account child care. if you're going to put people back to work, who is ultimately going to 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 child care. i was in school. i was doing something, not just sitting around doing nothing. >> so you want to work? >> of course. >> welfare becomes racial...

Black and white communities. >> all these absurd laws are putting people in prison for lengthy terms and we all know the imbalances of the way people imprisoned, who gets incarcerated for the longer periods of time. it's always people of color. suddenly you have this massive group of primarily black men going to prison. >> president clinton had a political strategy of saying, we're going to be tough on crime but we're going to be socially receptive. and the democratic party started moving to the right, playing the racial political lines. >> welfare as we know it is now history. president clint...

Communities but instead has become another wedge between black and white communities. >> all these absurd laws are putting people in prison for lengthy terms and we all know the imbalances of the way people imprisoned, who gets incarcerated for the longer periods of time. it's always people of color. suddenly you have this massive group of primarily black men going to prison. >> president clinton had a political strategy of saying, we're going to be tough on crime but we're going to be socially receptive. and the democratic party started moving to the right, playing the racial political lines....

Black and white communities. >> all these absurd laws are putting people in prison for lengthy terms and we all know the imbalances of the way people imprisoned, who gets incarcerated for the longer periods of time. it's always people of color. suddenly you have this massive group of primarily black men going to prison. >> president clinton had a political strategy of saying, we're going to be tough on crime but we're going to be socially receptive. and the democratic party started moving to the right, playing the racial political lines. >> welfare as we know it is now history. president clint...

Blacks and whites. >> all these absurd laws are putting people in prison for lengthy terms and we all know the imbalances of the way people are imprisoned, who gets incarcerated for the longer periods of time. it's always people of color. suddenly you have this massive group of primarily black men going to prison. >> president clinton had a political strategy of saying, we're going to be tough on crime but we're going to be socially receptive. and the democratic party started moving to the right, playing the racial political lines. >> welfare as we know it is now history. president clinton tod...