Yesterday Marked Fifteen Years since Welfare Reform

Yesterday, Newt sent out two tweets from his personal account:

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Today is 15th anniversary of welfare reform. The shift to state control and personal responsibility dramatically improved people's lives.

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We should build on success of welfare reform by applying block-granting Medicaid and other means tested federal programs.

For a public policy course, I wrote this paper on welfare reform last year.