The U.S. President Bill Clinton signed the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA), a dramatic reform of the American system of economic aid for the poor. This helped to enable the labor force to participate rather than relying on national support.
Clinton's choice to support a proposition that appreciably cut spending on economic assistance was controversial among members of the Democratic Party, especially so close to the 1996 election. Republicans, in contrast, hailed the signing of PRWORA. The 1996 welfare reform was a success of centrist policymaking that would create a more sustainable variation of economical aid for poor Americans, or it was a dangerous first step toward the gradual disappearance of that help. Whose vision of American society did it signify?
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